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Kate Ascher is our guest blogger during the week of December 17th. If you have any questions for Kate Ascher, add a comment to any of her posts. Here is some brief information about The Works: Anatomy of a City:
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.
About Kate Ascher
Kate Ascher received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in government from the London School of Economics and her B.A. in political science from Brown University. She formerly served as assistant director of the Port at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and worked overseas in corporate finance, before her previous position as executive vice president of the Economic Development Corporation for City of New York. She is currently the director of development at Vornado.
The Works
Anatomy of a City
Kate Ascher - Author
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Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 240 pages | ISBN 9780143112709 | 27 Nov 2007
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To Ms Ascher for BLOG re/Theme Parks
Dear Ms. Ascher, (sent on Jan.15, 2008)
I am I.A.T.S.E. Local One Broadway Technician.
I love your book many of the crew at "WICKED" on Broadway purchased your book after I had showed my copy of THE WORKS to them...
The revitalization of Coney Island, is that the same group who had aspirations of opening a theme park on Randall's Island? Where would I obtain the overall drawings of Governors Island? I have been building models of theme parks and have a non-profit educational theme park that teaches all historic origins of different music-- "MUSICQUARIUM" the task seems daunting to ever get to the next step... any advise please?
J.L. Harrison