Engineering the City by Matthys Levy
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."A terrific book to help you answer those tough questions about everyday structures in an urban environment...filled with useful drawings and pictures...loaded with experiments, design projects and construction diagrams." --Demolition
Matthys Levy is the author of various books and the designer of many renowned buildings and other constructions around the world. His past publications include the best-selling classic Why Buildings Come Down, which established his public reputation as an authority on the causes of severe structural failures, such as the World Trade Center towers' collapse on 9/11. Structural Designs in Architecture, Why the Earth Quakes, Why the Wind Blows, Earthquake Games, and Engineering in the City are among the books he wrote (or co-authored in some cases). Building Eden is Levy's debut novel, a suspenseful thriller about the design and construction of significant buildings in New York City, as well as the many things that can go wrong. The Javits Convention Center, the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History, and the Marriott Marquis Hotel are among the New York constructions he planned and oversaw.
He underlines that the novel and all of his characters are fictional, and that any resemblance to public figures is totally accidental. Levy is currently based in Vermont's Burlington.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781556524196 |
| ISBN 10 | 1556524196 |
| Title | Engineering the City |
| Author | Matthys Levy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
| Year published | 2000-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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