[PDF.05bi] On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work

On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Loved it as a resident, leveraged it to understand national challenges|By BK|Having worked in critical infrastructure protection for years, "On The Grid" was a wonderful treat. It's essentially a physiology course for a neighborhood -- how everything works, where everything comes from and where everything goes. While I'm a resident of Raleigh, it's not really a book about a par|From Publishers Weekly|Inquisitive everyman Huler takes an obsessively detailed behind the scenes look at wires, water pipes, and other typically ignored but terribly important pathways that lie beneath our feet. He puts himself front-and-center for his subjects

Turn on a switch and from the nearest bulb out pours light from...somewhere; turn on a faucet and water appears. Wires, pipes, and roads support the lives we lead, but the average person doesn't know where they go or even how they work. In On the Grid, Scott Huler takes the time to understand the systems that sustain our way of life, starting from his own quarter of an acre in North Carolina and traveling as far as ancient Rome.

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You easily download any file type for your gadget.On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work   |  Scott Huler. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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