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The Works: Anatomy of a City
The Works Anatomy of a City
Author: Kate Ascher
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, ...  more » 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.
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ISBN-13: 9780143112709
ISBN-10: 0143112708
Publication Date: 11/27/2007
Pages: 240
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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