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.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Bone, Kevin.
• Pollara, Gina.
• Appleton, Albert F.
• Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. School of Architecture.
• Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Waterworks--New York (State)--New York--History.
• Water-supply--New York (State)--New York--History.
• Water-supply.
• History.
• Waterworks.
• New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

Waterworks

Place of Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, 2006.

Summary:

The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the fascinating 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 astonishing archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and tunnels.

Notes:

• "The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union."
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-255) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

• 1580931766
• 9781580931762

OCLC:

70839718

Publisher Number:

9781580931762

Online:

The Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund Home Page