Kate Ascher is an author and excecutive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Her 2005 book, "The Works: Anatomy of a City", a textual and graphic exploration of how the complicated and often overlapping infrastructure of a modern city works, garnered wide discussion and praise when it was published. Ascher received her M.Sc. Wikipedia
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