Underground Guide to Sewers - Or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &C.

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Halliday is the author of Water: A Turbulent History , Amazing and Extraordinary London Underground Facts , and The Great Stink: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis . Klappentext A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's great cities. Halliday begins with sanitation in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia! Greece! and Imperial Rome! and continues with medieval waterways. Zusammenfassung A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's great cities. Halliday begins with sanitation in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, Greece, and Imperial Rome, and continues with medieval waterways.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Halliday, Stephen/ Bazalgette Halliday
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780262043342
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04334-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management, Technology & Industrial Arts, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History