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UNINA9910779472703321 |
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Whyte William H., Jr., <1917-1999.> |
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City [[electronic resource] ] : rediscovering the center / / William H. Whyte ; photos by the author ; foreword by Paco Underhill |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009 |
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1-283-89827-6 |
0-8122-0834-X |
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1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Cities and towns |
City and town life |
City planning |
Sociology, Urban |
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Monografia |
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Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c1988. |
Small portions of this book appeared previously in The social live of small urban spaces, by William H. Whyte, published by the Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-377) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Social Life of the Streets -- 3. Street People -- 4. The Skilled Pedestrian -- 5. The Physical Street -- 6. The Sensory Street -- 7. The Design of Spaces -- 8. Water, Wind, Trees, and Light -- 9. The Management of Spaces -- 10. The Undesirables -- 11. Carrying Capacity -- 12. Steps and Entrances -- 13. Concourses and Skyways -- 14. Megastructures -- 15. Blank Walls -- 16. The Rise and Fall of Incentive Zoning -- 17. Sun and Shadow -- 18. Bounce Light -- 19. Sun Easements -- 20. The Corporate Exodus -- 21. The Semi-Cities -- 22. How to Dullify Downtown -- 23. Tightening Up -- 24. The Case for Gentrification -- 25. Return to the Agora -- Appendix A. Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions in New York City -- Appendix B. Mandating of Retailing at Street Level -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and |
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notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it.Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast-and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . . . It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face. |
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UNINA9910830455703321 |
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Shang Joseph J. S. |
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Computational electromagneticaerodynamics / / Joseph J.S. Shang |
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[Place of publication not identified] : , : IEEE Press |
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2016 |
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[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2016] |
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1-119-15601-7 |
1-119-15593-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (496 p.) |
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IEEE press series on rf and microwave technology |
IEEE series on RF and microwave technology |
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Plasma dynamics |
Electromagnetism |
Aerodynamics |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Plasma Fundamentals -- Ionization Processes -- Magnetohydrodynamics Formulation -- Computational Electromagnetics -- Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Scattering -- Computational Fluid Dynamics -- Computational Electromagnetic-Aerodynamics -- Modeling Electron Impact Ionization -- Joule-Heating Actuators -- Lorentz-Force Actuator -- Plasma Fundamentals. |
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Presents numerical algorithms, procedures, and techniques required to solve engineering problems relating to the interactions between electromagnetic fields, fluid flow, and interdisciplinary technology for aerodynamics, electromagnetics, chemical-physics kinetics, and plasmadynamics This book addresses modeling and simulation science and technology for studying ionized gas phenomena in engineering applications. Computational Electromagnetic-Aerodynamics is organized into ten chapters. Chapter one to three introduce the fundamental concepts of plasmadynamics, chemical-physics of ionization, classical magnetohydrodynamics, and their extensions to plasma-based flow control actuators, high-speed flows of interplanetary re-entry, and ion thrusters in space exploration. Chapter |
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four to six explain numerical algorithms and procedures for solving Maxwell's equation in the time domain for computational electromagnetics, plasma wave propagation, and the time-dependent compressible Navier-Stokes equation for aerodynamics. The concluding chapters discuss developments in computational electromagnetic-aerodynamics for multi-fluid models, including chemical kinetics by nonequilibrium thermal excitations, and chemical-physics by electron impact ionization. . Integrates interlinking computational model and simulation techniques of aerodynamics and electromagnetics. Combines classic plasma drift-diffusion theory and electron impact ionization modeling for electromagnetic-aerodynamic interactions. Describes models of internal degrees of freedom for vibration relaxation and electron excitations This book is intended for aerospace researcher and engineers, as well as graduate students in preparation for thesis and dissertation research. Joseph Shang is a Research Professor Emeritus at Wright State University, USA, and a Scientist Emeritus at the Air Force Research Laboratory. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Ohio State University. Dr. Shang is a pioneer of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), and led the development of three-dimensional, mass-averaged Navier-Stokes equations simulations for the aerodynamic performance of aerospace vehicles as well as the characteristic-based formulation for solving three-dimensional Maxwell equations in the time domain. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronauts and Astronautics, and serves on the advisory board of the Aerospace Engineering Department. He has written nearly 400 articles and conference papers, as well as 14 book chapters. |
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UNISA996206536103316 |
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Journal of Advanced Science |
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Hiratsuka, Japan, : The Society |
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Science - Japan |
Technology - Japan |
Technology - Social aspects - Japan |
Science |
Technology |
Technology - Social aspects |
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Japan |
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