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UNINA9910484819703321 |
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Autore |
Haken H. |
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Titolo |
Synergetic cities : information, steady state and phase transition : implications to urban scaling, smart cities and planning / / Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XII, 260 p. 62 illus., 8 illus. in color.) |
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Collana |
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Springer Series in Synergetics |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Transportation engineering |
Traffic engineering |
Computational complexity |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Cities as hybrid complex systems -- Synergetics: A short reminder -- SIRN, IA and their conjunction (SIRNIA) -- Formalism I. Bottom-up approach: From parts to order parameters -- Steady states and the city -- Phase transitions -- Phase transitions and the city -- Smart cities -- Cognitive planning and professional planning -- Conclusions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The book offers a novel approach to the study of the complex dynamics of cities. It is based on (1) Synergetics as a science of cooperation and selforganization, (2) information theory including semantic and pragmatic aspects, and optimization principles, (3) a theory of steady state maintenance, and of (4) phase transition, i.e. qualitative changes of structure or behavior. From this novel theoretical vantage point, the book addresses particularly three issues that stand at the core of current discourse on cities: Urban Scaling, Smart Cities and City Planning. An important consequence of “the 21st century as the age of cities”, is that the study of cities currently attracts scientists from a variety of disciplines, ranging from physics, mathematics and computer science, through urban studies, architecture, planning and human geography, to economics, psychology, sociology, public administration |
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and more. The book is thus likely to attract scholars, researchers and students of these research domains, of complexity theories of cities, as well as of general complexity theory. In addition, it is directed also to practitioners of urbanism, city planning and urban design. |
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UNINA9910824296603321 |
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How scientific instruments have changed hands / / edited by A.D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Schechner and Paolo Brenni |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016] |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Collana |
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History of science and medicine library ; ; v. 56 |
Scientific instruments and collections ; ; v. 5 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Morrison-LowA. D |
SchechnerSara <1957-> |
BrenniPaolo |
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Disciplina |
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Scientific apparatus and instruments - History - 18th century |
Scientific apparatus and instruments - History - 19th century |
Scientific apparatus and instruments - History - 20th century |
Scientific apparatus and instruments - Marketing - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- 1 Symbiosis and Style: The Production, Sale and Purchase of Instruments in the Luxury Markets of Eighteenth-century London / Alexi Baker -- 2 Selling by the Book: British Scientific Trade Literature after 1800 / Joshua Nall and Liba Taub -- 3 The Gentle Art of Persuasion: Advertising Instruments during Britain’s Industrial Revolution / A. D. Morrison-Low -- 4 Some Considerations about the Prices of Physics Instruments in the Nineteenth Century / Paolo Brenni -- 5 Mathematical Instruments Changing Hands at World’s Fairs, 1851–1904 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell -- 6 Connections between the Instrument-making Trades in Great Britain and Ireland and the North American Continent / Gloria Clifton -- 7 European Pocket Sundials for |
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Colonial Use in American Territories / Sara J. Schechner -- 8 Selling Mathematical Instruments in America before the Printed Trade Catalogue / Richard L. Kremer -- 9 Trade in Medical Instruments and Colonialist Policies between Mexico and Europe in the Nineteenth Century / Laura Cházaro -- General Index. |
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This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not yet be complete, but it has been acknowledged that it is more complex than sketched out twenty-five or even fifty years ago. Here is a collection of case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe showing instruments moving from maker to market-place, and, to some extent, what happened next. Contributors are: Alexi Baker, Paolo Brenni, Laura Cházaro, Gloria Clifton, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Richard L. Kremer, A.D. Morrison-Low, Joshua Nall, Sara J. Schechner, and Liba Taub. |
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