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The Works: Anatomy of a City Tapa blanda - 2007
de Kate Ascher
Offering a cross section of hidden infrastructure, this title uses innovative graphic images and clear text explanations to answer questions about the way things work in a modern city.
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A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city
Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market? Why radiators in apartment buildings clang? Using New York City as its point of reference, The Works takes readers down manholes and behind the scenes to explain exactly how an urban infrastructure operates. Deftly weaving text and graphics, author Kate Ascher explores the systems that manage water, traffic, sewage and garbage, subways, electricity, mail, and much more. Full of fascinating facts and anecdotes, The Works gives readers a unique glimpse at what lies behind and beneath urban life in the twenty-first century.
A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city
Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market? Why radiators in apartment buildings clang? Using New York City as its point of reference, The Works takes readers down manholes and behind the scenes to explain exactly how an urban infrastructure operates. Deftly weaving text and graphics, author Kate Ascher explores the systems that manage water, traffic, sewage and garbage, subways, electricity, mail, and much more. Full of fascinating facts and anecdotes, The Works gives readers a unique glimpse at what lies behind and beneath urban life in the twenty-first century.
Primera línea
New York city is a city of streets.
Detalles
- Título The Works: Anatomy of a City
- Autor Kate Ascher
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: First
- Páginas 240
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Penguin Books, New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación 2007-12-01
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143112709 / 0143112708
- Peso 1.92 libras (0.87 kg)
- Dimensiones 10.78 x 8.46 x 0.6 pulgadas (27.38 x 21.49 x 1.52 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects City planning, Infrastructure (Economics)
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2005048915
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.121
Reseñas en medios
"The Works is both a reference guide and a geeky pleasure."
-Time Out New York
"It's a rare person who won't find something of interest in The Works, whether it's an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or the view of what's down a manhole."
-New York Post
-Time Out New York
"It's a rare person who won't find something of interest in The Works, whether it's an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or the view of what's down a manhole."
-New York Post
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