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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. Spotters guides traditionally focus on the natural world but if we are to understand the modern landscape it is vital to recognise its manmade features. Power (including electricity grids, power stations, oil and gas extraction and renewable energies); and Waste (including sewers, industrial waste management, recycling). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780752469973
Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 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. Power (including electricity grids, power stations, oil and gas extraction and renewable energies); and Waste (including sewers, industrial waste management, recycling). Seller Inventory # B9780752469973
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Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # FV-9780752469973