The Works: Anatomy of a City
by Ascher, Kate
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- ISBN 13
- 9780143112709
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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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- Ambis Enterprises LLC (US)
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- Title
- The Works: Anatomy of a City
- Author
- Ascher, Kate
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 14
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0143112708
- ISBN 13
- 9780143112709
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- This edition first published
- November 27, 2007
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