Cities and Their Vital Systems

Cities and Their Vital Systems

Infrastructure Past, Present, and Future

  • Author: Herman, Robert; Ausubel, Jesse H.
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309037860
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309555166
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1988
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English

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.

  • Cover
  • 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

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