Illustrated Infrastructure

from the back cover:

"Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there?  Where your garbage goes?  What the pipes under city streets do?  Using New York City as its point of reference, The Works takes you down the manhole and behind the scenes to explain exactly how an urban infrastructure operates.  Explore the complex systems that manage water, traffic, sewage, and garbage, subways, electricity, mail, and much more.  Full of fascinating facts and anecdotes, The Works provides a unique glimpse at what lies behind and beneath urban life in the twenty-first century."