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| The Works: Anatomy of a City
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Author: Kate Ascher
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release Date: 2007-11-27
ISBN-10: 0143112708
ISBN-13: 9780143112709
List Price: $20.00
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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.
excellent
| Customer Rating:  | | excellent book, has lots of really nice graphics showing entire networks of systems in simplified form. goes into a decent amount of detail revealing many interesting things, I would have liked more detailed info in some instanced but seems like I can get this from other books such as: A Field Guide to Roadside Technology (http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Roadside-Technology/dp/1556526091/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b). |
And You Thought Disney Was The Greatest Place On Earth??
| Customer Rating: | | The work that goes into designing, developing, and maintaining an infrastructure for a city like New York is perhaps one of the greatest feats on mankind. The amazing part of it all is that the detail, the science, the engineering genius, and the reliability of all things that keep a city running go relatively unnoticed to the uncurious. But if you are the type that has often wondered how a city really works, how power is supplied, how water is brought in and sewage brought out, how communication and transportation systems are organized, then this is the book for you. The great thing about this book is that it is readable for ages 9 and up. Great illustrations, graphs, diagrams, and easy to read explainations keeps this book light and breezy as a Richard Scarry book. I loved it and highly recommend it. |
Best NYC nerd book EVER!!
| Customer Rating: | | This book is filled with how everything in the New York City infrastructure works. EVERYTHING!! |
Ultimate coffee table/nightstand/waiting room book
| Customer Rating: | | Induldge your inner nerd and buy this book. The sections are well laid out with excellent and clear graphics and the sections are small enough that you (or your visitors) can either take one bite at a time or just browse through the thing till you find something that interests you (and you will). Describes detail in a way that's accessable to everyone and without getting tedious. My wait at the dentist's office would fly by with something like this to while away the time. |
How does New York City work?
| Customer Rating: | This is an awesome book for anyone who ever questions "How?"
In the similar vein of "How does it work?" This is simply the book of "How does New York City work?".
I'll never forget a live video/music piece on Sesame Street while I was growing up entitled "Where does the trash go?".
This book answers that question and so many more! From the sewer system to the stop lights and traffic flow. Anything most of us have ever wondered about, regarding the day to day minutia of city, is in this book.
This is a book for anyone from 9 to 90 and beyond.
Enjoy it, and savor it. Share it, and understand it.
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