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"The works: anatomy of a city" offers a cross section of this hidden infrastructure, using beautiful, innovative graphic images combined with short, clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the way things work in a modern city. It describes the technologies that keep the city functioning, as well as the people who support them-the pilots that bring the(...)
The works : anatomy of a city
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"The works: anatomy of a city" offers a cross section of this hidden infrastructure, using beautiful, innovative graphic images combined with short, clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the way things work in a modern city. It describes the technologies that keep the city functioning, as well as the people who support them-the pilots that bring the ships in over the Narrows sandbar, the sandhogs who are currently digging the third water tunnel under Manhattan, the television engineer who scales the Empire State Building's antenna for routine maintenance, the electrical wizards who maintain the century-old system that delivers power to subways.
Urban Theory
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Exploring the interconnected systems that make life livable in the sky is the task of Kate Ascher's illustrated The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper. Ascher examines skyscrapers from around the world to learn how these incredible structures operate.
The heights : anatomy of a skyscraper
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Exploring the interconnected systems that make life livable in the sky is the task of Kate Ascher's illustrated The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper. Ascher examines skyscrapers from around the world to learn how these incredible structures operate.
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''New York Rising'' is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation- of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped a city like no other. From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrapers and large-scale urban planning schemes of the late twentieth(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
November 2018
New York rising: an illustrated history from the Durst collection
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''New York Rising'' is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation- of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped a city like no other. From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrapers and large-scale urban planning schemes of the late twentieth century, this book presents a broad historical survey, illustrated with images drawn largely from the archival resources of the Durst Collection at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Architecture since 1900, Europe