发表于2024-11-22
The Works 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 城市 建筑 城市规划 urban-planning 环境 文化 地理 文化研究
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.
两件事儿:(i)十字路口有磁感应线圈monitor traffic (ii)几十年前NYC地下有气动的tube投递信件,速度竟然能到30mph
评分anatomy of nyc.
评分以纽约为范本,对于城市的基础设施infrastructure进行了全面的图解化介绍,是美国学习城市设计的启蒙教材之一。对于尚未到后城市化阶段的中国城市来说,是很好的借鉴,防患于未然。
评分The PERFECT book about how New York City operates!
评分“geeky pleasure” — Time Out New York
The Works 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书