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January 31, 2024

City on a Grid How New York Became New York

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Free Download Gerard Koeppel, "City on a Grid: How New York Became New York"
English | 2015 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 0306822849, 030682549X | EPUB | 27,7 mb
You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring headstrong Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, and estates and generations of property lines. All would disappear as the crosshatch fabric of the grid overspread the island: a heavy greatcoat on the land, the dense undergarment of the future city.

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January 15, 2024

Data Mining Techniques in Grid Computing Environments

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Free Download Data Mining Techniques in Grid Computing Environments by Werner Dubitzky
English | 2008 | ISBN: 047051258X | 288 Pages | PDF | 3.7 MB
Based around eleven international real life case studies and including contributions from leading experts in the field this groundbreaking book explores the need for the grid-enabling of data mining applications and provides a comprehensive study of the technology, techniques and management skills necessary to create them.

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