Cities and their vital systems : infrastructure past, present, and future
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Bibliographic Information
Cities and their vital systems : infrastructure past, present, and future
(Series on technology and social priorities)
National Academy Press, 1988
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
1 Cities and Infrastructure: Synthesis and Perspectives
2 The Dynamic Characterization of Cities
3 How Cities Grew in the Western World: A Systems Approach
4 Urban Systems and Historical Path Dependence
5 An Economic Model of Urban Growth
6 Growth of U.S. Cities and Recent Trends in Urban Real Estate
Values
7 Infrastructures for Movement: Past and Future
8 Dynamics and Replacement of U.S. Transport Infrastructures
9 Air Traffic Congestion: Problems and Prospects
10 Combining Communications and Computing: Telematics
Infrastructures
11 Reflections on the Telecommunications Infrastructure
12 Water Supply and Distribution: The Next 50 Years
13 The Urban Wastewater Infrastructure
14 New Construction Technologies for Rebuilding the Nation's
Infrastructure
15 Longevity of Infrastructure
Contributors
Index
Table of Contents
- 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
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