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    Underground
    Underground
    Underground
    Ebook105 pages43 minutes

    Underground

    By David Macaulay

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    This illustrated book gives young readers “a breathtaking and entirely original insight” into the complex systems that exist underneath modern cities (Kirkus, starred review).
     
    Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay takes readers on a visual journey through a city's various support systems—the many tunnels, pipes, walls, and other structures that help sustain the bustling life above. In Underground, Macaulay exposes a typical section of this intricate underground network and explains how it works.
     
    Along with his beautiful illustrations, Macaulay presents “a straightforward yet fascinating description of the labyrinth beneath the feet of any city dweller. And what a complex covered world [he] reveals! He invents an intersection of two streets and proceeds to show what we all might find if we dared to descend through that Alice-in-Wonderland manhole" (The New York Times).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 23, 1983
    ISBN9780547347974
    Underground
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    David Macaulay

    David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given “to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.” Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books. David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.

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      Underground - David Macaulay

      title page

      Contents

      Title Page

      Contents

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Acknowledgments

      Underground

      Glossary

      About the Author

      Copyright © 1976 by David Macaulay

      All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to trade.permissions@hmhco.com or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.

      www.hmhco.com

      The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

      Macaulay, David.

      Underground.

      SUMMARY: Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground elements of a large modern city.

      1. Underground utility lines—Juvenile literature. 2. Underground construction—Juvenile literature. [1. Underground utility lines. 2. Underground construction. 3. City and town life] I. Title.

      TD159.3.M3 624'.19 76-13868

      ISBN 978-0-395-24739-6 hardcover

      ISBN 978-0-395-34065-3 paperback

      eISBN 978-0-547-34797-4

      v3.0816

      For ELIZABETH the saboteur

      and JANICE the defender.

      For time, information, encouragement, and sometimes all three, very special thanks in order of appearance to Larry Walsh, Bev Chaney, and Frank Dyckman in New York; John J. Doherty, Frank P. Bruno, Alan Gass, Clement Titcomb, Ben Kilgore, Tom Walsh, Tom Joyce, John Sullivan, James E. Wagner, George M. Pease, Frank J. McPartlan, Melanie and Walter in Boston; Lorraine Shemesh, Tom Sgouros, Bill Drew, and Wilbur Yoder in Providence; and Ruth Crossley-Holland somewhere on the Victoria line.

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      Beneath the buildings and streets of a modern city exists the network of walls, columns, cables, pipes, and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of its inhabitants. The larger the city, the more intricate this network becomes. While the walls and columns support the city’s buildings, bridges, and towers, the cables, pipes, and tunnels carry life-sustaining elements such as water, electricity, and gas. Larger tunnels burrow through the underground, linking places on the congested surface more directly. Through them high-speed trains carry the large numbers of people who live and work within the urban community.

      Since this massive root system is rarely seen, even in part, its complexity is difficult to imagine and its efficiency hardly ever realized. Not until the subway breaks down or a water main bursts do we begin to feel the extent of our dependence on this vast hidden network.

      The primary purpose of this book is to expose a typical section of that network and to explain how it works. In order to limit myself to the more essential systems in the underground, I have invented a site at the intersection of two streets. Although the information is accurate, the step-by-step way in which it is presented is somewhat idealistic. In most cities, especially those that have grown gradually over many years, the various functions are all happening at the same time and often in the same place.

      By better understanding the things we can’t see in a familiar environment such as the city, we can learn to appreciate the array of unseen structures and systems, both manmade and natural, which surround us wherever we go. These amazing and often indispensable systems work so well and so quietly that we tend to be unaware of their existence.

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