Engineering the City - How Infrastructure Works (Paperback, Projects and Pr)

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.

General

Imprint:	A Cappella Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2000
First published:	October 2000
Authors:	Matthys Levy • Richard Panchyk
Dimensions:	254 x 177 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	144
Edition:	Projects and Pr
ISBN-13:	978-1-55652-419-6
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	1-55652-419-6
Barcode:	9781556524196

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