Laurie Winkless

Science and the City

The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The science of the city, now and in the future.Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work? Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas - from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables that help us communicate at the speed of light - but most of us are too busy to notice. Science and the City is your guidebook to that hidden world, helping you to uncover some of the remarkable technologies that keep the world's great metropolises moving. Laurie Winkless takes us around cities in six continents to find out how they're dealing with the challenges of feeding, housing, powering and connecting more people than ever before. In this book, you'll meet urban pioneers from history, along with today's experts in everything from roads to time, and you will uncover the vital role science has played in shaping the city around you. But more than that, by exploring cutting-edge research from labs across the world, you'll build your own vision of the megacity of tomorrow, based on science fact rather than science fiction.Science and the City is the perfect read for anyone curious about the world they live in.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Sigma / Bloomsbury Specialist
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781472913234
• ISBN-10: 147291323X
• Artikelnr.: 47366201

Autorenporträt

Laurie Winkless is an Irish physicist-turned-science-writer, currently based in New Zealand. After her post-grad, she joined the UK's National Physical Laboratory as a research scientist, where she specialised in functional materials. She is an experienced science communicator, who loves talking about science in all forms of media. Since leaving the lab, Laurie has worked with scientific organisations, engineering companies, universities, and astronauts, amongst others. Her writing has featured in outlets including Forbes, Wired, Esquire, and The Economist, and her first book, Science and the City, was published by Bloomsbury Sigma in 2016. This was followed by Sticky, her exploration of friction and surface science, in 2021.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Up: The most visible part of a city's skyline is the skyscraper - do you know how they're built?2. Switch: Sparks will fly - we'll explore the role of electricity, and you'll understand how the grid works3. Wet: Cities can't survive without water, and they produce a lot of waste. Expect toilet humour!4. Way: Let's head out on the open road, and explore beautiful bridges and the science of traffic jams5. Drive: What good is a road without a car? Here we'll talk about everything from tyres to fuel cells6. Loco: We'll dig our very own tunnel, and you'll discover why 'leaves on the line' cause problems7. Connect: Cities contain other less obvious networks - food and goods, communications and money8. City: Spend a day of discovery in an imaginary future city

Rezensionen

In one relatively short book, Winkless manages to seamlessly cover everything from the definition of a kilowatt-hour to an explanation of how machine learning could have a lasting impact on traffic-signal timing. Science