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Terms and conditions applyWater-works: The Architecture and Engineering of the New York City Water Supply
Kevin Bone and Gina Pollara
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Format: Book
Pages: 288
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Date Published: Dec 2006
Stock Code: 61542
Binding: Hardback
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New York's water is legendary, its fresh, clean taste regarded as the modern equivalent of the nectar of the gods, but its purity has been achieved at a cost, through a massive program of exploration and construction that is still ongoing. The story of that monumental undertaking is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an astonishing archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts and tunnels. This complex system brings millions of gallons of water to the city every day from rivers many hundreds of miles away.
Kevin Bone, Gina Pollara and students from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union spent nine years cataloguing and preserving this remarkable archive, which is held by the City of New York Department of Environmental Protection. Essays by Bone, former DEP Commissioner Albert F. Appleton and aquatic scholars Peter H. Gleick and Gerard Koeppel trace the history of the system from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to the current construction of Water Tunnel #3.
Kevin Bone, Gina Pollara and students from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union spent nine years cataloguing and preserving this remarkable archive, which is held by the City of New York Department of Environmental Protection. Essays by Bone, former DEP Commissioner Albert F. Appleton and aquatic scholars Peter H. Gleick and Gerard Koeppel trace the history of the system from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to the current construction of Water Tunnel #3.
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