Structural Models in the Subterranean World
Author(s): Sandra Lach Arlinghaus
Source: Geographical Review,
Vol. 84, No. 2, (Apr., 1994), pp. 152-161
Published by: American Geographical Society
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/215327
Abstract
Graph-theoretic structural models offer one strategy
for simplifying complicated real-world systems. Two examples, the New
York City subway and the Chicago freight-tunnel systems, are considered
in this light. When this conceptual approach is coupled with the
evidence of maps, insight into barrier-free subway access emerges, as
does insight into a time lag in the 1992 flooding of adjacent locations
along the Chicago tunnel system.
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