The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper

by Kate Ascher

Book Overview

From the author of "The Works: Anatomy of a City" comes a gorgeous graphic tour through the inner workings of skyscrapers. The skyscraper is perhaps the most recognizable icon of the modern urban landscape. Providing offices, homes, restaurants, and shopping to thousands of inhabitants, modern skyscrapers function as small cities- with infrastructure not unlike that hidden beneath our streets. Clean water is provided to floors thousands of feet in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594203032
• ISBN13: 9781594203039
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher