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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. --Publisher. An account of the interconnected technology, transportation, and utility systems supporting New York City pairs detailed graphic images with explanations of behind-the-scenes mechanisms and processes for key structures and everyday arenas.
City planning. --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Urbanisme --- Infrastructures de transport --- New York City --- Applied physical engineering --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Mass communications --- City planning --- 711.4(C)(73) --- Stedenbouw ; New York ; werking van de verborgen infrastuur --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad ; Verenigde Staten --- Government policy --- Management --- Équipements collectifs --- 711.4 <73> --- 711.4 <73> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA
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The introduction of a welfare state economy after 1945 profoundly changed the Belgian territory. Government support for private home ownership resulted in widespread suburban sprawl. This book investigates the new infrastructural and business backbone that supported this suburban realm. At first sight the history of the construction of the highway network, the establishment of a fabric of consumer goods industries and the transformation of Brussels’ periphery into a metropolitan region reads as an account of economic policy and investment decisions. However, upon closer scrutiny, various urban models and architectural paradigms are seen to have left their mark on these endeavors. The satellite town, the neighborhood unit, Le Corbusier’s ‘usine verte’, the British industrial park and American corporate architecture are references in the various operations documented in the book. Most strikingly, the linear industrial city serves as a guiding image in the construction of an interrelated network of industrial corridors. This book highlights a crucial episode of post-war urbanization and planning, and puts the Belgian case in an international perspective. It unravels a hidden logic in the seemingly chaotic nebula of construction that transformed the country since the Second World War.
Belgique
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--1945-1973
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--Urbanisation
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--Architecture
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--Infrastructures
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--Regional planning
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City planning
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Urban policy
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Housing policy
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Architecture and state
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Architecture
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History
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factories [structures]
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economy
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338.2 <493>
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338.4 <493>
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711.554 <493>
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711.7 <493>
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725.4 <493>
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440 Openbare werken
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94.036
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711.554
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711.6
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351
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71.038(493)
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711.4(C)(493)
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Stedenbouw ; België ; heropbouw ; 1945-1973
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Stedelijk beleid ; naoorlogse welvaartstaat België
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Wederopbouw
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Stadsontwikkeling ; België ; 20ste eeuw
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Economisch beleid. Economische politiek. Geleide economie. Plan --
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