Cities and Their Vital Systems:

Infrastructure Past, Present, and Future

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Size: 368 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1988

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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 ...
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Front Matter	i-x
1 Cities and Infrastructure: Synthesis and Perspectives	1-21	(skim)
2 The Dynamic Characterization of Cities	22-70	(skim)
3 How Cities Grew in the Western World: A Systems Approach	71-84	(skim)
4 Urban Systems and Historical Path Dependence	85-97	(skim)
5 An Economic Model of Urban Growth	98-107	(skim)
6 Growth of U.S. Cities and Recent Trends in Urban Real Estate Values	108-145	(skim)
7 Infrastructures for Movement: Past and Future	146-174	(skim)
8 Dynamics and Replacement of U.S. Transport Infrastructures	175-221	(skim)
9 Air Traffic Congestion: Problems and Prospects	222-231	(skim)
10 Combining Communications and Computing: Telematics Infrastructures	233-248	(skim)
11 Reflections on the Telecommunications Infrastructure	249-257	(skim)
12 Water Supply and Distribution: The Next 50 Years	258-277	(skim)
13 The Urban Wastewater Infrastructure	278-293	(skim)
14 New Construction Technologies for Rebuilding the Nation's Infrastructure	294-311	(skim)
15 Longevity of Infrastructure	312-332	(skim)
Contributors	333-338	(skim)
Index	339-357	(skim)

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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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