Author's page: Kate Ascher

The Works: Anatomy of a City

Kate Ascher

The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper

Kate Ascher

Why are skyscrapers in Asia safer than those in the United States?

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How does the city of New York operate?

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How can a modern elevator be as fast as an airplane?

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How do skyscrapers operate?

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What is the New York City's infrastructure about?

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Where does your garbage go?

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Why radiators in apartment buildings clang?

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What do the pipes under city streets do?

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How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market?

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How does my city work?

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What happens when the power goes out in a skyscraper?

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How are skyscrapers constructed?

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How do skyscrapers sway in the wind?

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What is the skyscrapers infrastructure like?

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Have new safeguards been designed to protect skyscrapers from terrorism?

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How does an urban infrastructure operate?

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Why are all modern skyscrapers seemingly made of glass, and how can that be safe?

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