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Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works


Book Description
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 under... More
Book Information
PublisherChicago Review Press
BindingPaperback (5 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages144
ISBN-10B005DI8JDO
Publication Date10/01/2000
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About Matthys Levy (Author) : Matthys Levy is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Matthys Levy include Earthquake Games: Earthquakes and Volcanoes Explained by 32 Games and Experiments, Enginee... more
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About Richard Panchyk (Author) : Richard Panchyk is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Richard Panchyk include Franklin Delano Roosevelt for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 Activities (For Kids ... more
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