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Engineering the City

By Richard Panchyk

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Engineering the City

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Description
How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the inner, and sometimes invisible, workings of the city. Roads, railroads, bridges, telephone wires, and power lines are visible elements of the infrastructure; sewers, plumbing pipes, wires, tunnels, cables, and sometimes rails are usually buried underground or hidden behind walls. Engineering the City tells the fascinating story of infrastructure as it developed through history along with the growth of cities. Experiments, games, and construction diagrams show how these structures are built, how they work, and how they affect the environment of the city and the land outside it.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
144
Release Date:
2000-10-01
Publication Date:
2000-10-01
Publisher:
Chicago Review Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1556524196
ISBN13:
9781556524196
Minimum Reading Age:
9
Maximum Reading Age:
12
Weight:
282 g
Height:
178 cm
Width:
254 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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