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Travelling in a Straight Line
Author(s) -
Houchell Oliver
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.200
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , transit (satellite) , line (geometry) , telecommunications , range (aeronautics) , scheme (mathematics) , art history , engineering , transport engineering , art , public transport , mechanical engineering , aerospace engineering , mathematical analysis , geometry , mathematics
In the 1970s, when Paul Rudolph's Lower Manhattan Expressway project was featured on the cover of Reyner Banham's Megastructure, no urban scheme was complete without a rapid transit system running through it. Today, cities are serviced and connected by a range of technologies. Architect and technology‐transfer enthusiast Oliver Houchell talks about the need to use these to increase mobility and expand capacity into and between the world's megalopoli.