The Works: Anatomy of a City (Häftad)
avKate Ascher
ISBN: 9780143112709 - UTGIVEN: 200712Read Kate Ascher's posts on the Penguin Blog.
A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city
Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market? [...]
The Heights (Inbunden)
avKate Ascher
ISBN: 9781594203039 - UTGIVEN: 2011-11From the author of "The Works: Anatomy of a City" comes a gorgeous graphic tour through the inner workings of skyscrapers. The skyscraper is perhaps the most recognizable icon of the modern urban landscape. Providing offices, homes, restaurants, and shopping to thousands of inhabitants, modern skysc[...]
The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air (Inbunden)
avKate Ascher, Rob Vroman
ISBN: 9781594204685 - UTGIVEN: 2014-03"Is it possibly to write a stunning book about infrastructure? Kate Ascher's books are bliss... Using gorgeous graphics and clear, simple, language, Ascher explains the infrastructure and engineering marvels around us." --Slate.com
In our digital age, it's easy to forget that almost everything [...]
