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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... steel piles to form our foundations. So now, the skeleton. The classic image of a skyscraper is a steel frame with vertical and horizontal supports throughout – basically, a very tall steel box split up into smaller boxes. This ...
... steel piles to form our foundations. So now, the skeleton. The classic image of a skyscraper is a steel frame with vertical and horizontal supports throughout – basically, a very tall steel box split up into smaller boxes. This ...
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... steel frame. It is also the only part of the building that stays a constant size and shape from the ground floor to the very top. 'To go higher than ever before, we knew we needed a stiff axle through the centre of the building, and ...
... steel frame. It is also the only part of the building that stays a constant size and shape from the ground floor to the very top. 'To go higher than ever before, we knew we needed a stiff axle through the centre of the building, and ...
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... steel-framed Empire State Building in the 1930s involved a complex system of incredibly brave workers, manually controlled external winches and internal hoists to raise the steel beams to dizzying heights (we've all seen the iconic ...
... steel-framed Empire State Building in the 1930s involved a complex system of incredibly brave workers, manually controlled external winches and internal hoists to raise the steel beams to dizzying heights (we've all seen the iconic ...
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... steel bars used to construct the remaining storeys, the only option is to lift them. If you've ever been anywhere near a construction site, you'll know what a crane looks like, and you may even have seen some monstrously tall ones. But ...
... steel bars used to construct the remaining storeys, the only option is to lift them. If you've ever been anywhere near a construction site, you'll know what a crane looks like, and you may even have seen some monstrously tall ones. But ...
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... steel frame, concrete floors and walls, and glass facades. We can pump concrete to the upper floors, and can lift steel rebar and frames using a self-building crane. So we are all set, right? Nearly. We just have the small matter of ...
... steel frame, concrete floors and walls, and glass facades. We can pump concrete to the upper floors, and can lift steel rebar and frames using a self-building crane. So we are all set, right? Nearly. We just have the small matter of ...
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