Categorii: Diverse
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2008
Editura: Penguin Books
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 416
ISBN: 9780713999327
Dimensiuni: l: 15.5cm | H: 23.1cm
Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? What does the way you drive say about you? Is the road a microcosm of society or an autonomous republic that functions according to its own set of rules? Does traffic work the same all over the world? Traffic Signals answers these and many other questions, plunging head-on into traffic, not simply as a social ill or as a design problem, but as a leading cultural indicator and a living, organic model of what physicists call “emergent collective behavior”, of things which often happen for no discernible reason...