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14th out of 54 books
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Underground
David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
March 23rd 1983
by Graphia
(first published 1976)
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The book Underground has drawings and illustrations that describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and the other underground elements of a large city. The author explains how the different underground systems of the city work. He explains that all of these things are necessary for a city to have. I think this would be very useful in the classroom because you can show students what is underneath them and all the different thi...more
David Macaulay's architectural background shines through in his book Underground. Underground reveals how a city functions through unique cut-away views of the life below the pavement. This book entertains with hidden pictures, unexpected vantage points, impeccable research, and phenomenal perspective work. Any reader is bound to learn something about the way cities work from Underground.
If I could, I would have all of David Macaulay’s “how things work” books in my classroom library. His attent...more
If I could, I would have all of David Macaulay’s “how things work” books in my classroom library. His attent...more
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This was one of my favorite books as a kid. I went back and tracked it down at a local flea market. Shows the inner workings (albeit a bit dated) of a city, how the sewers systems work, how we get electricity, how we build buildings... The illustrations are wonderful and draw you in. A must for any budding architect, or anyone who loves cities in general.
My least favourite of the Macauly ink books, perhaps because it's present day material. I don't know. What's beneath our streets just isn't as fascinating to a kid as a castle. Storm drain or portcullis...you decide.
this book has some amazing drawings of what a city would look like if you viewed them from beneath the street. i was actually able to explain to my project manager what a slurry wall was because of this book.
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utterly changed my life. lambasted my adolescence along w/skinny puppy and Gustav Dore'. Esoterics of the human-ecosystem.
The book of Macaulay's I like the least, which still makes it very good.
Did not enjoy this as much as Castle and Cathederal.
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David Macaulay, born in 1946, was eleven when his parents moved from England to Bloomfield, New Jersey. He found himself having to adjust from an idyllic English childhood to life in a fast paced American city. During this time he began to draw seriously, and after graduating from high school he enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). After spending his fifth year at RISD in Rome on...more
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