Engineering the City

Name: Engineering the City
Brand: Chicago Review Press
SKU: 9781556524196-G
Price: 1.80 EUR
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By Richard Panchyk

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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
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 144
Age Recommendation:: 9 – 12 years
Publisher:: Chicago Review Press
Publication Date:: 2000-10-01
ISBN / EAN:: 9781556524196
Weight:: 282 g
Dimensions:: 18/25/1 cm

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