Traffic: Why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us) - Brossura

Vanderbilt, Tom

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0713999322 ISBN 13: 9780713999327

Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2008

Riassunto

Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? What does the way you drive say about you? Is the road a microcosm of society or an autonomous republic that functions according to its own set of rules? Does traffic work the same all over the world? Traffic Signals answers these and many other questions, plunging head-on into traffic, not simply as a social ill or as a design problem, but as a leading cultural indicator and a living, organic model of what physicists call "emergent collective behavior", of things which often happen for no discernible reason...

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Informazioni sull?autore

Tom Vanderbilt writes on design, technology, science, and culture for many publications, including Wired, Slate, The London Review of Books, Gourmet, The Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Cabinet, Metropolis, and Popular Science. He is contributing editor to the award-winning design magazines I.D. and Print, contributing editor to Business Week Online, and contributing writer of the popular blog Design Observer. He is the author of two previous books: Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America and The Sneaker Book.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Allen Lane
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0713999322
• ISBN 13: 9780713999327
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile