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Panchyk, Richard; Levy, Matthys

 
9781556524196: Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works
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ISBN 10: 1556524196 ISBN 13: 9781556524196
Casa editrice: Chicago Review Press, 2000

Sinossi

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Matthys Levy, an architectural engineer, is a principal of Weidlinger Associates, a structural engineering firm. He has won numerous awards, including the AIA Institute Honor Award. Richard Panchyk is the author of Archaeology for Kids, Franklin Delano Roosevelt for Kids, Galileo for Kids, Keys to American History, Our Supreme Court, and World War II for Kids.

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Editore
Chicago Review Press
Data di pubblicazione
2000
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1556524196
ISBN 13 
9781556524196
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
142
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