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Explore the inside story of New York’s rapid transit push and the engineering lessons behind a city-changing project.
This nonfiction volume collects Fred Lavis’s深入 look at how engineers planned, designed, and built the city’s new rapid-transit system during the early 20th century. It blends study, field experience, and official data to illuminate the challenges of constructing subways, elevated railways, and supporting structures while keeping traffic and daily life rolling.
- Learn how large‑scale urban infrastructure projects are organized and funded.
- See the key engineering problems, from tunnel and elevated railway design to ventilation and water management.
- Understand the practical methods used for construction, bypassing utilities, and protecting streets and buildings.
- Get a historical perspective on how engineering decisions shaped a growing metropolis.
Ideal for readers of engineering history, urban planning, and anyone curious about how a modern city expands its transit network.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book delves into the development of New York City's rapid transit system during the early 20th century, capturing the engineering challenges and complexities of the era. The construction of some of the largest infrastructure projects in the city's history, namely, several hundred miles of subway lines, is presented in intricate detail. The author examines the intricate process of excavating beneath the bustling streets, the innovative methods employed to preserve buildings along the construction routes, and the engineering marvel of tunneling under the city's rivers. This book not only chronicles the development of New York's rapid transit system but also provides a glimpse into the engineering prowess of a bygone era, a testament to the ingenuity and foresight of the engineers who shaped the city's transportation landscape. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781331960652_0
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