Infrastructure


The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade
Underground
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
Le Corbusier
The primordial instinct of every human being is to assure himself of a shelter. The various classes of workers in society to-day no long have dwellings adapted to their needs; neither the artizan nor the intellectual. It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of to-day: architecture or revolution.
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

Marvin Cheung
Culture as infrastructure describes the culture and cultural organizations that allow stakeholders to contest norms’ interpretations and adapt informal constraints in line with the goals of the global community, given the absence of enforcement mechanisms at a global level for formal constraints (i.e. laws and policies).
Marvin Cheung, 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

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Readings of interest to nerds for critical systems and the built environment
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