Cities and their vital systems : infrastructure past, present, and future
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Cities and their vital systems : infrastructure past, present, and future
（Series on technology and social priorities）
National Academy Press, 1988
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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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