Area of Research: Cities and Transportation
Cars and Civilization auf Deutsch
The essay Cars and Civilization by Jesse Ausubel has been translated into German by Thilo Spahl and appears (with fewer illustrations) in Thilo’s 2018 book Around the World in 80 Minutes (In 80 Minuten um Die Welt) as “Die Geschwindigkeit zaehlt” (Speed pays), pp. 30-49.
Maglevs in the NY Times
An article about the Hyperloop magnetically levitated train in the 10 August 2017 New York Times quotes Jesse Ausubel:
Why Even the Hyperloop Probably Wouldn’t Change Your Commute Time
Humans have historically tended to travel about half an hour to work, regardless of how fast the mode of transportation.
August 10, 2017 – – The Upshot – Print Headline: “Hyperloop Would Offer Speed, Though Not a Cut in Commuting Time
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We first studied maglevs during the 1980s as part of a National Academy of Engineering project on cities and infratructures. Not enough has changed.
R Herman, JH Ausubel. Cities and their vital systems: Synthesis and perspectives Pp 1-21 in Cities and their vital systems: Infrastructure, Past, Present, and Future, National Academy, Washington, DC1988
More recent essays in this domain are:
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Italy’s Corriere della Sera also runs a new story :Ecco perché auto senza pilota e treni iperveloci non ci faranno … Corriere della Sera–Aug 15, 2017
La scienziata comportamentale Jesse Ausubel si è in pratica chiesta: considerando il fatto che, secondo uno studio della American Community …
Concrete Life Cycle Assessment
PHE researcher Iddo Wernick co-authored a recent article, Comparative LCA of concrete with natural and recycled coarse aggregate in the New York City area, published in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. Congratulations to the main co-authors, professors Ardavan Yazdanbakhsh and Larry Bank and student Thomas Baez, in the Department of Civil Engineering at City College of New York.
Nature of the City
We post the polished text of Jesse Ausubel’s 2016 lecture on The Nature of the City as well as the video.
For more information see What’s New entries from 19 December 2016
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2016/12/19/glasgow-talk/
and 4 March 2016
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2016/03/04/glasgow-cities-lecture/.
Thanks again to Prof. Colin McInnes of the University of Glasgow.
Energy Density AAPG
We post Jesse Ausubel’s centennial address to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). The address, Density: Key to Fake and True News about Energy and Environment, will appear in the AAPG’s Search and Discovery, as contribution #70272 (2017).
Glasgow Talk
On April 17, 2016 Jesse delivered a lecture The Nature of the City at the University of Glasgow as part of a workshop “Future cities: Do cities have limits?“
Glasgow Cities lecture
Glasgow University will host a lecture by Jesse Ausubel Monday 17 April on The Nature of the City as part of a workshop, “Future cities: Do cities have limits?”
Here is the lecture on YouTube: