Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the MetropolisBloomsbury Publishing, 11. kol 2016. - Broj stranica: 288 Cities 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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... called the dead load, and the weight of anything it will contain (humans, office equipment, elevators...), known as the live load. The foundations of a skyscraper need to support both the dead load and the live load, so let's start ...
... called the dead load, and the weight of anything it will contain (humans, office equipment, elevators...), known as the live load. The foundations of a skyscraper need to support both the dead load and the live load, so let's start ...
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... called corridor walls – these support the core in the same way as buttresses held (and still hold) up the thick stone walls of cathedrals and castles the world over. Coming off these buttresses are the web walls that give the building ...
... called corridor walls – these support the core in the same way as buttresses held (and still hold) up the thick stone walls of cathedrals and castles the world over. Coming off these buttresses are the web walls that give the building ...
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... called Putzmeister, the system was basically a high-pressure hose filled with concrete. Because no-one had ever attempted to pump concrete to such heights, the engineers had to find a way to test the concept, and they had a very clever ...
... called Putzmeister, the system was basically a high-pressure hose filled with concrete. Because no-one had ever attempted to pump concrete to such heights, the engineers had to find a way to test the concept, and they had a very clever ...
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... called epoxy. Its mechanical properties mean that the length of a lift cable could, in theory at least, be doubled, from 500m (as in the Burj Khalifa), to more than 1,000m (3,280ft). Daniel Safarik from the CTBUH believes that ultrarope ...
... called epoxy. Its mechanical properties mean that the length of a lift cable could, in theory at least, be doubled, from 500m (as in the Burj Khalifa), to more than 1,000m (3,280ft). Daniel Safarik from the CTBUH believes that ultrarope ...
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... called vortices. If you've ever seen a streetlamp oscillating in high winds, you're already familiar with this kind of turbulence. If you scale that up to the height of a skyscraper, you have even more to worry about. While most ...
... called vortices. If you've ever seen a streetlamp oscillating in high winds, you're already familiar with this kind of turbulence. If you scale that up to the height of a skyscraper, you have even more to worry about. While most ...
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