Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works: Projects and Principles for Beginners
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Exploring the hidden veins of urban life.
If you've ever been captivated by the behind-the-scenes workings of city life, "Engineering the City" could be a perfect read. Matthys Levy takes you on an exploratory journey through the essential services that keep urban areas pulsing. It's accessible for beginners and enriched with interactive elements like experiments and construction diagrams. This book might just change the way you view every street and building in your city.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works: Projects and Principles for Beginners
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ISBN: 9781556524196
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Date of Publication: 2000-10-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.92
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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.
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Exploring the hidden veins of urban life.
If you've ever been captivated by the behind-the-scenes workings of city life, "Engineering the City" could be a perfect read. Matthys Levy takes you on an exploratory journey through the essential services that keep urban areas pulsing. It's accessible for beginners and enriched with interactive elements like experiments and construction diagrams. This book might just change the way you view every street and building in your city.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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