Description: Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer. This execrable exploration traces the evolution of waste management from the ingenious infra-structures of the ancient world to the seeping cesspits and festering open sewers of the medieval period. It investigates and celebrates the work of the civil engineers whose pioneering integrated sewer systems brought to a close the devastating cholera epidemics of the mid-19th century and continue to serve a vastly increased population today. And let's not forget those giant fatbergs clogging our underground arteries, or the storm-surge super-structures of tomorrow.
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EAN: 9780500252352
UPC: 9780500252352
ISBN: 9780500252352
MPN: N/A
Brand: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: An Underground Guide to Sewers: Or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &C.
Language: English
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Item Height: 240 mm
Subject: Engineering & Technology, History
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 940 g
Subject Area: Natural Science
Author: Stephen Halliday
Item Width: 170 mm
Format: Hardcover
