迷失在过去和现在世界各大城市地下的巨大下水道网络中：让详细的档案计划，地图和照片引导你通过这些地下迷宫-以前只有他们的建设者，工程师，或者古怪的流氓探险家。这种可恨的探索追溯了废物管理的演变，从古代世界精巧的基础设施到中世纪渗水的污水坑和溃烂的露天下水道。它调查并赞扬了土木工程师的工作，他们开创性的综合下水道系统结束了19世纪中期毁灭性的霍乱疫情，并继续为今天大量增加的人口服务。

Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world’s great cities – past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths – previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer. This execrable exploration traces the evolution of waste management from the ingenious infra-

structures of the ancient world to the seeping cesspits and festering open sewers of the medieval period. It investigates and celebrates the work of the civil engineers whose pioneering integrated sewer systems brought to a close the devastating cholera epidemics of the mid-19th century and continue to serve a vastly increased population today. And let’s not forget those giant fatbergs clogging our underground arteries, or the storm-surge super-structures of tomorrow.