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System city : infrastructure and the space of flows /
A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spatially extended materia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
John Wiley & Sons,
2013.
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| Colección: | Architectural Design ;
Jul./Aug. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spatially extended material artefacts, but as complex systems that are analogous to living organisms, exhibiting many of the same characteristics. There is an emerging view that the design of the thousands of new cities needed for an expanding world population are to be founded on intelligent and inhabited infrastructural sy. |
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| Notas: | Print version cataloged as a continuing resource by Library of Congress. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781118759110 1118759117 9781118757758 1118757750 |