Constructal view of city flow structure and people safety
In this paper cities are viewed as lively systems with internal flow structure of people, energy and goods. By appropriately defining concepts as metabolic rate, pulsating period, and mass previous studies have shown that cities follow known allometric laws of animals, then allowing rules for selfor...
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| Format: | bookPart |
| Language: | eng |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/6498 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/6498 |