The $1.4 billion Fulton Center subway station complex "comically fails," according to one critic. But if we look at the big picture, its design was informed in part by new techniques using simulators. Engineering firm Arup created a program that showed the Fulton Center's creators how people would move through the space at different hours of the day, because "scientists and programmers have made huge advances in their ability to model crowds of human beings, using principles borrowed from particle physics." Read more over at Capital. [CNY; previously]
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