means in a large modern city. Many different branches of a sewer coming from
many different directions have to be precisely calculated so that each branch has
sufficient slope and yet, when all the branches meet, they come together at the ...
Author: Matthys Levy
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613741650
Page: 144
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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.