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Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works

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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.

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Product Details

Author:	Matthys Levy
Paperback:	144 pages
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press
Publication Date:	October 01, 2000
Language:	English
ISBN:	1556524196
Product Length:	9.9 inches
Product Width:	7.0 inches
Product Height:	0.4 inches
Product Weight:	0.7 pounds
Package Length:	10.4 inches
Package Width:	7.1 inches
Package Height:	0.4 inches
Package Weight:	0.6 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 2 reviews

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Engineering in the City-- a Dad's review Jan 26, 2001 By Patrick J. Welch
I have an 8 year old son who is seriously addicted to Lego building blocks and anything else that can be built. I am also a cub scout den leader and that makes me pretty good at understanding what 8 and 9 year old boys like.

They like this book! It answers some basic questions, that very subtley provide some basic engineering principles. What is BEST about this book is that every chapter has several simple projects that your child and you can do together. Again, simple, but it is suprising how educational this kind of fun can be.

My cub scouts like building bridges the best so far. You can bet we will work our way through this book and do many more projects.

Honestly, I wish a book like this existed when I was a kid. I thought engineering was all math and boring! NO SO! This book lights a fire in my imagination as well as that of my son. I love this book!

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

A must-have! Aug 17, 2007 By Mike F. "Mike"
I totally agree with the previous reviewer; this is a fun book to read with your kids and do the activies together. It's also perfect for those awkward moments when they ask you a question like, "how does a road work?" and you don't exactly know the answer. It spells out everything in an easy-to-understand way.