In his previous books, "A Scientist At The Seashore" and
"Meditations At Sunset," James Trefil used commonplace settings in
the natural world as a point of departure for probing the mysteries
of nature. In "A Scientist In The City," Trefil takes the opposite
tack, looking at the quintessential man-made environment of the
city as a way of examining the forces that define our world. What
does the heating system of a building or the construction of a
bridge tell us about the development of a city? What does the
amplified environmental stress of city life on plants and animals
suggest about the wild? How have scientific advances in building
materials and an understanding of the structure of the atom helped
to shape the cities of today? From an explanation of the evolution
and influence of plate glass to reinforced steel to an analysis of
the future of the skyscraper, "A Scientist In The City" offers a
fascinating study of the promise and the consequences of technology
in our everyday urban lives. In addition, Trefil goes on to explore
how the new technologies being developed today will help to
determine the changing forms that cities will take in the future.
"A Scientist In The City" is the kind of book that will open our
eyes to the man-made world around us, and show us some of the
scientific reasons for why we live the way we do.
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