← Back to discovery

Infrastructure

Brian Hayes

2005512 pagesabout 8–12 hours
2005
first published
  • 2006W. W. Norton · 512 pages · ENGISBN 9780393329599
  • 2005W. W. Norton · 512 pages · ENGISBN 9780393059977

Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing, and waste, this is the "Book of Everything" for the industrial landscape. The objects that fill our everyday environment are streetlights, railroad tracks, antenna towers, highway overpasses, power lines, satellite dishes, and thousands of other manufactured items, many of them so familiar we hardly notice them. Larger and more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of the landscape: coal mines, nuclear power plants, grain elevators, oil refineries, and steel mills, to name a few.

How do you feel?