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
Underground
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
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
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Pete Buttigieg
Knowing that the resulting features of high-quality infrastructure can stand not just as pillars of transportation, but cathedrals of democracy.
Pete Buttigieg

Electricity, invisible and precise, requires ugly and twisted wires that cut through the skies.
Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

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