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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.
ASIN : 1556524196
Publisher : Chicago Review Press; 0 edition (October 1, 2000)
Language : English
Paperback : 129 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781556524196
ISBN-13 : 978-1556524196
Reading age : 9 years and up
Grade level : 4 – 6
Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
Dimensions : 7 x 0.4 x 10 inches
