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 "e,telematics,"e, the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.
Titel
Cities and Their Vital Systems
Untertitel
Infrastructure Past, Present, and Future
Editor
EAN
9780309555166
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Genre
Veröffentlichung
01.01.1988
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Anzahl Seiten
368
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