Cities and Their Vital Systems

Infrastructure Past, Present, and Future

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

AvAdvisory Committee on Technology and Society,Robert Herman,Jesse H. Ausubel

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Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.

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Utgivningsdatum1988-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt301 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagNational Academies Press
ISBN9780309037860

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1 Front Matter; 2 1 Cities and Infrastructure: Synthesis and Perspectives; 3 2 The Dynamic Characterization of Cities; 4 3 How Cities Grew in the Western World: A Systems Approach; 5 4 Urban Systems and Historical Path Dependence; 6 5 An Economic Model of Urban Growth; 7 6 Growth of U.S. Cities and Recent Trends in Urban Real Estate Values; 8 7 Infrastructures for Movement: Past and Future; 9 8 Dynamics and Replacement of U.S. Transport Infrastructures; 10 9 Air Traffic Congestion: Problems and Prospects; 11 10 Combining Communications and Computing: Telematics Infrastructures; 12 11 Reflections on the Telecommunications Infrastructure; 13 12 Water Supply and Distribution: The Next 50 Years; 14 13 The Urban Wastewater Infrastructure; 15 14 New Construction Technologies for Rebuilding the Nation's Infrastructure; 16 15 Longevity of Infrastructure; 17 Contributors; 18 Index