Water-works : the architecture and engineering of the New York City water supply / Kevin Bone, editor ; Gina Pollara, associate editor ; Paul Deppe, archive project associate ; essays by Albert F. Appleton [and others] ; with excerpts from City Water Tunnel #3 by Marty Pottenger.

Title & Author:

Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, 2006.

Description:

268 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
"The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-255) and index.
Galileo's tears -- The rise to Croton / Gerard Koeppel -- The geologist -- The extension of the Croton system / Kevin Bone -- The hoghouse -- The Catskill system / Kevin Bone -- Upheaval -- The Delaware system / Kevin Bone -- The hoghouse man -- The post-Delaware era / Albert F. Appleton -- Accident story -- The future of water / Peter H. Gleick -- West Indian sandhog.

Summary:

"The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the story of the massive program of exploration and construction that was required to achieve such purity. The story of that monumental undertaking is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an 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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

1580931766 (hardcover)
9781580931762 (hardcover)

Subject:

Waterworks New York (State) New York History.
Water-supply New York (State) New York History.
Services d'eau New York (État) New York Histoire.
Eau Approvisionnement New York (État) New York Histoire.
Water-supply.
Waterworks.
New York (State) New York.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Bone, Kevin.
Pollara, Gina.
Appleton, Albert F.
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. School of Architecture.

Waterworks

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249330
Call No.: BIB 178920
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

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