A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city
"It's a rare person who won't find something of interest in The Works,
whether it's an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or the view of
what's down a manhole." --New York Post
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? Why radiators in apartment
buildings clang? Using New York City as its point of reference, The
Works takes readers down manholes and behind the scenes to explain
exactly how an urban infrastructure operates. Deftly weaving text and
graphics, author Kate Ascher explores the systems that manage water,
traffic, sewage and garbage, subways, electricity, mail, and much more.
Full of fascinating facts and anecdotes, The Works gives readers a
unique glimpse at what lies behind and beneath urban life in the
twenty-first century.