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| #27568 in Books | Penguin Books | 2007-11-27 | 2007-11-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.88 x.63 x8.50l,1.92 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | Penguin Books||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Slightly Outdated, But A Good Introduction Without Too Many Details|By Kevin|This book serves as a great introduction to the mechanics of city planning, focusing mainly on infrastructure of cities such as roads, electricity, water. It does not focus too much on the service and social aspects of the cities like parks, museums, police, hospitals, schools, migration/commuting, etc|.com |Kate Ascher could not have chosen a much drier topic for a book than water mains, parking meters, railroad classification yards, and the other doodads of city infrastructure. But in Ascher's captivating book, The Works, the innards of New York City
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....
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