Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
infinitely repeatable anywhere. And with that, his LEGO-block approach became the reigning vernacular in Airworld’s peculiar geography of nowhere. Kasarda’s Law and Marchetti’s Constant It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Technology was going to ground us by linking and shrinking the world, and in doing so set
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times wider in 1950 than it was 150 years earlier, yet it still took only an hour to traverse. The rule has since been dubbed Marchetti’s Constant. Marchetti contended that transportation, not communications, was the “unifying principle of the world.” Ratifying Kasarda’s Law, he attested that the “so-called explosion in
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Ryanair and every low-fare carrier since. The combination of deregulation, cheap tickets, and gratuitous expense accounts has brought air travel well within range of Marchetti’s Constant, hence consultant expresses and Jim Tam’s perambulating across Texas. Consider Angela Kim, who commutes from Houston to Dallas every Tuesday to babysit her grandson
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in Diversity: Community Without Propinquity,” which was collected in Cities and Space: The Future Use of Urban Space. His quotation is lifted from the same. Marchetti’s Constant is derived from Cesare Marchetti’s paper “Anthropological Invariants in Travel Behavior” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 47, 1994). His maglev thought experiment appears
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, 261–62 Malthus, Thomas, 339 Manjoo, Farhad, 75 manufacturing sector: employment in, 202;in U.S. recession, 202 Mao Zedong, 409 Marchetti, Cesare, 116–17 Marchetti’s Constant, 116–17 Martin, James G., 169–70, 173 Marx, Karl, 11 Ma Ying-jeou, 388–89 McCain, John, 49, 87–88 McCarran International, 110 McDonnell
Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work
by Iain Gately · 6 Nov 2014 · 352pp · 104,411 words
‘quintessential unity of travelling instincts around the world’ and that this unity resulted in a fixed ‘travel time budget’ that he named after himself as Marchetti’s Constant. He tested his theory against a variety of cultures past and present and decided that it has shaped our behaviour since the dawn of history
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
by Geoffrey West · 15 May 2017 · 578pp · 168,350 words
spent traveling each day, whether they lived in ancient Rome, a medieval town, a Greek village, or twentieth-century New York, has become known as Marchetti’s constant, even though it was originally discovered by Zahavi. As a rough guide it clearly has important implications for the design and structure of cities. As
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planners begin to design green carless communities and as more cities ban automobiles from their centers, understanding and implementing the implied constraints of Marchetti’s constant becomes an important consideration for maintaining the functionality of the city. 4. THE INCREASING PACE OF WALKING Zahavi and Marchetti presumed that for a given
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. See animals Manchester, England, 223–24 Mandelbrot, Benoit, 130–31, 132, 138–45, 152, 364 Mandelbrot set, 143–44 manufacturing, 211 Marchetti, Cesare, 333–35 Marchetti’s constant, 334–35 market capitalization, 379, 389–90 market share, 408–9 Marx, Karl, 228, 332 Masdar (Abu Dhabi), 256, 258, 299 Mathematical Principles of Natural
Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
by Stefan Al · 11 Apr 2022 · 300pp · 81,293 words
of tomorrow. New mobility systems will change our cities and buildings once again. In 1994, Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti described a principle, now known as “Marchetti’s constant.” He found that, in general, people are willing to commute for about one hour a day, or a half-hour one way. Since Neolithic times
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in a bigger home. The race will be on for the first hyperloop-integrated skyscraper. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) could desensitize people to distance, possibly lengthening Marchetti’s “constant” of commuting time. Without having to attend to the wheel, you can now sleep in your car, or conduct online meetings there. Perhaps you can
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. (While it might not carry as many people, a hyperloop’s higher speeds would prevent people from otherwise taking a more carbon-intensive ride.) If Marchetti’s constant continues to hold, building new developments around faster forms of mobility may further encroach on untouched land, destroying habitats and threatening ecosystems. But there is
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manufacturing, 9, 12, 23–24, 46, 84 MahaNakhon, Bangkok, 77–78, 79 malls, 229–33, 237 Manchester, England, 154–55, 166 Marchetti, Cesare, 233–34 Marchetti’s constant, 234, 235, 237 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 254, 256 mass dampers. See tuned mass dampers mass timber, 45–47, 80 material efficiency, 81–84 Maupassant
Life as a Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change the World
by David Kerrigan · 18 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 80,835 words
being as car-centric as the developed world. City travel is still mostly composed of walking, bicycling and public transport, much more in line with Marchetti’s constant. It is probably preferable if these cities do not replicate the urban mistakes of others, as to multiply them on the scale of Mexico City