X and the City : Modeling Aspects of Urban Life

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Main Author: Adam, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012
Edition:1st ed
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505 0 |a Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Cancer, Princess Dido, and the city -- Chapter 2 Getting to the City -- Chapter 3 Living in the City -- Chapter 4 Eating in the City -- Chapter 5 Gardening in the City -- Chapter 6 Summer in the City -- Chapter 7 Not Driving in the City! -- Chapter 8 Driving in the City -- Chapter 9 Probability in the City -- Chapter 10 Traffic in the City -- Chapter 11 Car Following in the City-I -- Chapter 12 Car Following in the City-II -- Chapter 13 Congestion in the City -- Chapter 14 Roads in the City -- Chapter 15 Sex and the City -- Chapter 16 Growth and the City -- Chapter 17 The Axiomatic City -- Chapter 18 Scaling in the City -- Chapter 19 Air Pollution in the City -- Chapter 20 Light in the City -- Chapter 21 Nighttime in the City-I -- Chapter 22 Nighttime in the City-II -- Chapter 23 Lighthouses in the City? -- Chapter 24 Disaster in the City? -- Chapter 25 Getting Away from the City -- Appendix 1 Theorems for Princess Dido -- Appendix 2 Dido and the sinc Function -- Appendix 3 Taxicab Geometry -- Appendix 4 The Poisson Distribution -- Appendix 5 The Method of Lagrange Multipliers -- Appendix 6 A Spiral Braking Path -- Appendix 7 The Average Distance Between two Random Points in a Circle -- Appendix 8 Informal "Derivation" of the Logistic Differential Equation -- Appendix 9 A Miniscule Introduction to Fractals -- Appendix 10 Random Walks and the Diffusion Equation -- Appendix 11 Rainbow/Halo Details -- Appendix 12 The Earth as Vacuum Cleaner? -- Annotated references and notes -- Index 
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