Guide to Urban Engineering - Softcover

Claire Barratt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752469975 ISBN 13: 9780752469973

Publisher: The History Press, 2012

Synopsis

Spotter's guides traditionally focus on the natural world but if we are to understand the modern landscape it is vital to recognise its manmade features. "Guide to Urban Engineering" provides non-specialist readers with an introduction to the technology that underpins modern life. It is a useful identification tool to the anonymous blocks, unremarkable roads, and often disregarded features of our urban, suburban and rural landscapes. The book is divided into five main areas of infrastructure: Raw materials (including mining, agriculture, waterworks); Power (including electricity grids, power stations, oil and gas extraction and renewable energies); Transport (railways, roads, canals, aviation); Telecommunications (including telephony, radio and television, digital and satellite technology); and Waste (including sewers, industrial waste management, recycling). Each chapter fully explores the various engineering features and structures, detailing what they are, what they do, how they do it, and, most importantly, how to identify them.

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0752469975
• ISBN 13: 9780752469973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224