engineering

Longemont

Longemont is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Longemont rather than just read about it. In short: Longemont (Chinese: 龙之梦, literally: 'Dragon's Dream', also known as Cloud Nine Shopping Mall or Shanghai Summit Shopping City) is a 60-floor, 238-meter (781 ft) tall skyscraper with a shopping mall at its base, and offices and Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel as its main body, completed in 2006 and located in Shanghai, China. Overview The building is primarily a shopping mall at the lower levels.

Key takeaways

Longemont belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Longemont to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Longemont from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Longemont (Chinese: 龙之梦, literally: 'Dragon's Dream', also known as Cloud Nine Shopping Mall or Shanghai Summit Shopping City) is a 60-floor, 238-meter (781 ft) tall skyscraper with a shopping mall at its base, and offices and Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel as its main body, completed in 2006 and located in Shanghai, China.

Overview The building is primarily a shopping mall at the lower levels. The mall is home to many multinational retailers such as Uniqlo, C&A, and Zara (retailer), and is also connected to a Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel. At night the skyscraper is lit by floodlights attached to the outside walls. Longemont is located in western Shanghai, near Zhongshan Park. The park itself is just to the north and to the north of that is Suzhou Creek. An accident with an escalator in August 2015 resulted in the amputation of a man's leg.

Transport The skyscraper is immediately northeast of the Zhongshan Park Station on Shanghai Metro Line 2, Line 3, and Line 4. It can be seen from Lines 3 and 4, which are elevated at this point.

See also List of tallest buildings in Shanghai Global Harbor, another shopping mall a few kilometers to the north of Zhongshan Park.

References

External links Cloud Nine at Emporis

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Longemont

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Longemont claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Longemont before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Longemont ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Longemont

In research: Longemont appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Longemont in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Longemont is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2006 establishments in Shanghai, Buildings and structures completed in 2006, Changning, Shanghai, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Longemont outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Longemont in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Longemont means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Longemont out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Longemont in simple terms?

Why does Longemont matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Longemont?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Longemont.