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Product details
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (November 27, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143112708
ISBN-13: 978-0143112709
Product Dimensions:
8.5 x 0.6 x 10.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
91 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#116,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book serves as a great introduction to the mechanics of city planning, focusing mainly on infrastructure of cities such as roads, electricity, water. It does not focus too much on the service and social aspects of the cities like parks, museums, police, hospitals, schools, migration/commuting, etc. The illustrations are very colorful and vibrant. However, it is not as detailed as I would like it to be. There are many modes of transportation of passengers not covered in this book, including buses, ferries, commuter rail, and taxi. It's too bias towards subways. I still enjoyed looking at the pictures and diagrams. Although the text is slightly outdated and could use some updates, such as the construction of the Second Avenue Subway.Overall it's a good book to get a good introduction on the functioning levels of cities.
This was a gift. I have given away about 10 copies of this to various friends with kids. Really catpures the imagination. It is such a clever book and presented in such a unique way. Really - so informative and enjoyable.
I already owned this book, and bought this as a gift. If you are interested in, or work in the infrastructure field, there is no better primer than this text. It shows you how nearly all municipal infrastructure systems work in a diagramatic fashion. I've read it cover to cover.
Kate Ascher has made super entertaining and informative book about NYC. She answers the questions you walk around the city and briefly wonder but forget to google later. This book should be a requirement for anyone who lives in a big city, whether it's NYC or not, since a lot of it is applicable to all cities. We should all know what's happening below, around and even above us as we move through the city on a daily basis. It's also fun just to gather facts from the book and use them as convo starters or just to look smart at parties. (Giving Ascher credit of course)
2nd copy since I seem to have permanently loaned out the first copy. Read if from cover to cover. Lots of pictures and diagrams for kids (and guys hahahaha). For what it is, it's amazing!
Imagine:*an illustration of the special machinery used just to clean the ceiling of the Holland Tunnel.*a sidebar on the "Poo-Poo Choo-Choo" that for years transported waste 2,000 miles (!) from NYC to a dump in Texas.*a graphic showing payphone distribution density in all 5 boroughs.*a drawing of the simple but effective interlocking bolts and cross-tie latching that keep the corrugated metal containers on barges connected to each other so upper containers don't slide off lower ones and fall into the water.*a key to reading construction markings that crews spray paint on the streets.Such drawings, historical tidbits, and facts are more abundant in this book than leaves in Central Park.This book is exceptional. As the former Vice-chair of Manhattan Community Board 5 (greater midtown Manhattan), chair of its parks committee, and member of its land use and zoning committee, I can attest to the great value of Kate Ascher's remarkable accomplishment, "The Works." New York City's infrastructure--from garbage collection to traffic control; subway signaling to cable TV distribution among franchise-controlled territories--is one of the world's most multifaceted, and at times a curious mix of the high-tech and the antiquated.Reviews suggesting that the text is for teenagers may be accidentally misleading. "The Works" by no means is for teenagers either *primarily* or *at the exclusion of* adults. Yes, the book--especially its more heavily-illustrated sections--will no doubt fire the imagination of many teens who have engineering, design, line drawing, architectural, historical analysis, or problem-solving aptitudes. (Have a teenager who loved Legos as a kid but has outgrown them? This book will probably make a good gift.) Just because the book is broad in scope and doesn't examine each urban work it covers with the detail of a textbook for electrical engineering students at M.I.T. doesn't make it merely for adolescents.If you enjoy TV shows on The Science Channel or Discovery, shows like "Building the Ultimate," if you are a history trivia buff, if you just like looking at diagrams or line drawings of machinery and equipment, of you're fascinated by cities, or if it is simply the cast that you love New York City, this is a great book, and I highly recommend it.
If you like NYC and curious about the inner workings, it is a plus for kids or adults that are into that stuff. Like a little mini Discovery Channel in paper back of the city
Learn about the interior workings of a city--the infrastructure. Covers all the systems.
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