The Big Dig: Reshaping an American City

by Peter Vanderwarker

Book Overview

What's going on in Boston? In The Big Dig, photographer Vanderwarker takes readers behind the scenes of the largest public construction project in American history: the Central Artery Tunnel Project in Boston Harbor. Full-color photos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316605980
• ISBN13: 9780316605984
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.7" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Big Dig Photography at it's best

Wonderful book for Children. Great Photography. A must for the Christmas Stocking from Santa Claus

Vanderwalker King of The Big Dig

This book is so much fun to read. The photography is wonderful. Vanderwalker has such a good "eye" for beauty, even in construction. A must buy for the kids at Christmas

Bought it for a kid; kept it for myself

Living in Boston, you are constantly affected by Big Dig-related twists, turns, and upsets. One day the one-way street heads east; the next it has been re-routed west. Few of us venture into the heart of this truly amazing engineering feat, but this book shows us why we should pay more attention. Vanderwarker's spectacular photographs are thrilling to see and they give a glimpse of just why so much money has been poured into this project. We get to see things only the workers would normally see. But perhaps best of all is the glimpse it gives of cutting-edge engineering and technology. Seldom have I seen so clearly how yesterday's sci-fi has become today's "sci" and tomorrow's business as usual.