Engineering the City by Levy, Matthys

Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556524196)

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Engineering the City by Levy, Matthys

Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works

$14.95
Engineering the City by Levy, Matthys

Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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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.


Author: Matthys Levy, Richard Panchyk
ISBN-10: 1556524196
ISBN-13: 9781556524196
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2000
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2001 pg. 1126
By Matthys Levy
By Matthys Levy
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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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