Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the MetropolisCities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work? Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas – from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables that help us communicate at the speed of light – but most of us are too busy to notice. Science and the City is your guidebook to that hidden world, helping you to uncover some of the remarkable technologies that keep the world's great metropolises moving. Laurie Winkless takes us around cities in six continents to find out how they're dealing with the challenges of feeding, housing, powering and connecting more people than ever before. In this book, you'll meet urban pioneers from history, along with today's experts in everything from roads to time, and you will uncover the vital role science has played in shaping the city around you. But more than that, by exploring cutting-edge research from labs across the world, you'll build your own vision of the megacity of tomorrow, based on science fact rather than science fiction. Science and the City is the perfect read for anyone curious about the world they live in. |
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In order to truly scrape the sky with our structures, we would need to find lightweight, strongmaterials that could be made cheaply. The first step was to move from iron to steel. Metallic iron is one of the most common ingredients of ...
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'Now we're moving towards a hybrid glazing – two sheets of toughened glass with a layer of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) sandwiched in between.' In the unlikely event of this toughened-laminated glass being damaged, the sticky PVB layer will ...
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Once it is safely fixed, the crane's special 'climbing section' comes into its own: this is a metal sheath that surrounds the crane's tower and it can be moved up and down easily. Each time we want the crane to get taller, ...
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We just have the small matter of moving the eventual tenants around, and if you've ever had to walk up 10 flights of stairs, you might already know what's coming next – the elevator (or lift). In a skyscraper, elevators are more than ...
We just have the small matter of moving the eventual tenants around, and if you've ever had to walk up 10 flights of stairs, you might already know what's coming next – the elevator (or lift). In a skyscraper, elevators are more than ...
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Daniel Safarik from the CTBUH believes that ultrarope is more than simply a significant move forward for the lift industry – he thinks it will enable the construction of a new generation of buildings. Speaking to me, Daniel said, ...
Daniel Safarik from the CTBUH believes that ultrarope is more than simply a significant move forward for the lift industry – he thinks it will enable the construction of a new generation of buildings. Speaking to me, Daniel said, ...
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| Naslov | Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis |
| Autor | Laurie Winkless |
| Izdanje | ponovljeni tisak |
| Izdavač | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1472913221, 9781472913227 |
| Duljina | Broj stranica: 288 |
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