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New York Rising: An Illustrated History from the Durst Collection by Thomas Mellins; Kate Ascher
Category: Popular History
New York Rising is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation--of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped a city like no other. From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrape ...Show more
The Way to Go - Moving by Sea, Land, and Air by Kate Ascher
Category: Technology and Transport
In our digital age, it's easy to forget that almost everything we enjoy about modern life depends on motion. We ride in cars and on buses and trains to work; enjoy food shipped over oceans; fly high in the sky to any point on the planet. Over the last century, the world has come to rely on its ability t ...Show more
The Works : Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher
Category: Architecture
A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city "It's a rare person who won't find something of interest inThe Works, whether it's an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or the view of what's down a manhole."-New York Post Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet get ...Show more
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