Summer heat waves are often more dangerous in cities, because concrete (水泥) takes in heat in line with what’s known as the “urban heat island” effect. Plants and parks can provide much needed cooling.Then why isn’t there more green infrastructure? While both gray and green ...
At the beginning of the 19th century, Joseph Bonaparte undertook the reform of the Puerta del Sol and vicinity. The commercial street known as the Gran Vía was built as an east-west avenue at the start of the century. In the 1950's the north-south boulevard called Paseo de la Castellana...
根据最后一段“So, when we go off hiking into wild areas to “re-connect” with nature, we should go softly and considerately. It’s OK to get close to our animal friends, just not too close — we wouldn’t want to scare them, would we?(所以,当我们去野外徒步旅行,与大自然“重新...
Fukuyama: Up until the early 20th century, the US was relatively isolated and uninvolved in global politics, but beginning with the First World War, it became a major player in, first, European, and then global, politics. And right now, it does have a very substantial international role bec...
In architecture we see that cities start to tackle the massive transformation task to turn our cities with its old tired buildings and environments into exciting urban spaces, and I am looking forward to the renovation, starting this year, of two of those dinosaur-like buildings, in Lyon and ...
(2023.模拟)It's an increasingly familiar sight in US cities and suburbs: Workers wearing gloves, masks and other protective equipment fasten the backpack type devices with plastic tubes. They begin wetting trees, bushes and even house walls with pesticides (杀 ) targeting an age-old creature: ...
We have also tested extensively the sensitivity of our results towards our walk detection parameters (speed of 2 m/s) and the possibility that the walks could be the slow parts of other mobility modalities (e.g., traffic jams, stops, or intersections in cities). As we can see in Suppl...
(三)(2023 ·成都)Maps mark seas, countries, cities and our homes, and guide us through the world. To know them better, let's take a look at how maps have changed over the centuries.Many ancient countries used maps. One of the first is thought to have been drawn on the wall in Las...
Cities are growing in size and importance In many places around the world traffic has been at all-time lows since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest TomTom Traffic Index, with one-fifth (19%) less congestion globally and congestion down by average 26% during rush ...
This invention will collect light from stars and may find the secrets about the beginning of the universe (宇宙). The History of Maps Maps provide us with information of 26 . Ancient maps * One of the first maps...