Read Kate Ascher's posts on the Penguin Blog.
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.
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