(Free download) On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work
☆ Scott Huler ☆
| #297206 in Books | 2011-04-26 | 2011-04-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.36 x18.03 x5.54l,.66 | File Name: 1609611381 | 256 pages
||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 pa|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 subject
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 can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work | Scott Huler. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
