Sustaining Urban Networks
Subtitle: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems (The Networked Cities Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 23, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415324595
First sentence: This book is a contribution to the study of the development of the telecommunications, transportation, energy, and water supply, networked systems - sometimes referred to as large technical systems (LTSs) - that have gained crucial importance in the functioning of modern social systems over the past 100 to 150 years.