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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.… (más)
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This book is dedicated to Nicola Freeman, Matthew William Panchyk, and to all children who ask "why?"
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Introduction
Imagine that you live in a place where there were no pipes to carry water to your faucet and your toilet, no pipes to carry away your waste, no wires to power your appliances and computers and to light your home, no wires to carry your telephone conversations and your Internet messages, no roads on which to drive, no railroad tracks to guide your trains, and no bridges to cross rivers. Would that be a place where you would want to live? We are certain you answered "no" and rejected the idea of living without infrastructure.
1 Water, Water Everywhere
There would be no life without water.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The infrastructure will certainly grow; hopefully, this will occur without the mistakes of the past and with a concern for the earth we all share.
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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