Archinect - News2024-12-22T04:21:34-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/105248978/what-urban-physics-could-tell-us-about-how-cities-work
What ‘urban physics’ could tell us about how cities work Alexander Walter2014-07-28T14:40:00-04:00>2014-07-28T14:43:03-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/77/771104930d61d39d18360c36f9ade9e3?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>What does a city look like? If you’re walking down the street, perhaps it looks like people and storefronts. Viewed from higher up, patterns begin to emerge: A three-dimensional grid of buildings divided by alleys, streets, and sidewalks, nearly flat in some places and scraping the sky in others. Pull back far enough, and the city starts to look like something else entirely: a cluster of molecules.
At least, that’s what it looks like to Franz-Josef Ulm, an engineering professor [...].</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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