Engineering in Plain Sight : : an Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
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Includes index.
Electrical grid -- Communications -- Roadways -- Bridges and tunnels -- Railways -- Dams, levees, and coastal structures -- Municipal water and wastewater -- Construction.
"This illustrated book extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making their design and construction approachable and understandable to non-engineers. Readers will learn to identify characteristics of the electrical grid, roadways, railways, bridges, tunnels, waterways, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
San Francisco, CA : No Starch Press, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: 251 p. : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781718502321
171850232X
SUBJECTS
Civil engineering.
Infrastructure (Economics)