The Works: Anatomy of a City Hardcover - 2005
by Kate Ascher
How much do you really know about the systems that keep a city alive? The Works
The Works: Anatomy of a City offers a cross section of this hidden infrastructure, using beautiful, innovative graphic images combined with short, clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the way things work in a modern city. It describes the technologies that keep the city functioning, as well as the people who support them-the pilots that bring the ships in over the Narrows sandbar, the sandhogs who are currently digging the third water tunnel under Manhattan, the television engineer who scales the Empire State Building's antenna for routine maintenance, the electrical wizards who maintain the century-old system that delivers power to subways.
Did you know that the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is so long, and its towers are so high, that the builders had to take the curvature of the earth's surface into account when designing it? Did you know that the George Washington Bridge takes in approximately $1 million per day in tolls? Did you know that retired subway cars travel by barge to the mid-Atlantic, where they are dumped overboard to form natural reefs for fish? Or that if the telecom cables under New York were strung end to end, they would reach from the earth to the sun? While the book uses New York as its example, it has relevance well beyond that city's boundaries as the systems that make New York a functioning metropolis are similar to those that keep the bright lights burning in big cities everywhere.
The Works is for anyone who has ever stopped midcrosswalk, looked at the rapidly moving metropolis around them, and wondered, how does this all work?
First line
New York city is a city of streets.
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- Title The Works: Anatomy of a City
- Author Kate Ascher
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Press, New York
- Date November 3, 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781594200717 / 1594200718
- Weight 2.47 lbs (1.12 kg)
- Dimensions 11.26 x 8.9 x 0.82 in (28.60 x 22.61 x 2.08 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects City planning, Infrastructure (Economics)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005048915
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.121
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