The Works by Kate Ascher
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.
Kate Ascher received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in government from the London School of Economics and her B.A. in political science from Brown University. Ascher worked at Vornado Realty Trust in New York City before taking up her current position managing Happold Consulting's U.S. practice, and she serves on the faculty of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594200717 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594200718 |
| Title | The Works |
| Author | Kate Ascher |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2005-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Prizes | Winner of Connecticut Book Awards (Design) 2006 |
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