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Hillhouse, Grady,.
Engineering in plain sight :
an illustrated field guide to the constructed environment /
by Grady Hillhouse.
San Francisco :
No Starch Press,
[2023]
xi, 251 pages :
illustrations (chiefly color) ;
27 cm.
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Includes index.
Electrical grid -- Communications -- Roadways -- Bridges and tunnels -- Railways -- Dams, levees, and coastal structures -- Municipal water and wastewater -- Construction.
"This illustrated book extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making their design and construction approachable and understandable to non-engineers. Readers will learn to identify characteristics of the electrical grid, roadways, railways, bridges, tunnels, waterways, and more"--
Provided by publisher.
20221201.
Civil engineering
Popular works.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Popular works.
Hillhouse, Grady.,
San Francisco : No Starch Press, [2023].