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Compact City
The Next Urban Evolution
Thomas Saaty saaty@katz.pitt.edu Compact City
The Next Urban Evolution
Thomas L. Saaty saaty@katz.pitt.edu No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording, nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise copied for public or private use without written permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: to be obtained when text is complete
Copyright 2013 by RWS Publications, Pittsburgh, PA
ISBN 10 digit: 1-888603-13-5
ISBN 13 digit: 978-1-888603-12-5
Printed in the United States of America
To the memory of my friend and co-author of the first edition of this book, George B. Dantzig, the inventor of the Simplex Process in Linear Programming
Preface
This book is about cities of the future. It is a follow up and an updating of a book called Compact City that I coauthored with George Dantzig in 1973, and later translated to Japanese and Russian. We need to control nature by eliminating its capricious threats to our lives. We do it best by not only making our living, working , sports and other leisure structures more accessible in space, but also by minimizing and banishing congestions and the need for long times to commute to work or to access shopping malls, sports and cultural activities. With the threat of global warming and melting of the polar ice cap in the Antarctic, low lying cities throughout the world are threatened with drowning under more than 150 feet of water. What should we be thinking about insulating ourselves from natural threats like hurricanes and tsunamis and earthquakes? Surprisingly enough, the new design will eliminate one of the problems of poverty, the lack of shelter.
My thanks for help in producing this book go to my dedicated and tireless colleague Professor William Hefley; to my former student and frequent coauthor in decision theory the brilliant
The Next Urban Evolution
Thomas Saaty saaty@katz.pitt.edu Compact City
The Next Urban Evolution
Thomas L. Saaty saaty@katz.pitt.edu No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording, nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise copied for public or private use without written permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: to be obtained when text is complete
Copyright 2013 by RWS Publications, Pittsburgh, PA
ISBN 10 digit: 1-888603-13-5
ISBN 13 digit: 978-1-888603-12-5
Printed in the United States of America
To the memory of my friend and co-author of the first edition of this book, George B. Dantzig, the inventor of the Simplex Process in Linear Programming
Preface
This book is about cities of the future. It is a follow up and an updating of a book called Compact City that I coauthored with George Dantzig in 1973, and later translated to Japanese and Russian. We need to control nature by eliminating its capricious threats to our lives. We do it best by not only making our living, working , sports and other leisure structures more accessible in space, but also by minimizing and banishing congestions and the need for long times to commute to work or to access shopping malls, sports and cultural activities. With the threat of global warming and melting of the polar ice cap in the Antarctic, low lying cities throughout the world are threatened with drowning under more than 150 feet of water. What should we be thinking about insulating ourselves from natural threats like hurricanes and tsunamis and earthquakes? Surprisingly enough, the new design will eliminate one of the problems of poverty, the lack of shelter.
My thanks for help in producing this book go to my dedicated and tireless colleague Professor William Hefley; to my former student and frequent coauthor in decision theory the brilliant