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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,843 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,577 ratings — published 2005
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.68 — 416 ratings — published 2014
Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.46 — 383 ratings — published 2005
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.01 — 84 ratings — published 2014
Underground: An Illustrated Journey Through City Infrastructure and How Systems Work for Kids (Ages 8-12)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.20 — 626 ratings — published 1976
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.62 — 987 ratings — published 2023
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,893 ratings — published 2020
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,233 ratings — published 1974
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.77 — 274 ratings — published 1997
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,256 ratings — published 2008
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,076 ratings — published
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,202 ratings — published 2020
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,080 ratings — published 2012
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.22 — 23,862 ratings — published 1977
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,530 ratings — published 2013
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,156 ratings — published 2006
Kubernetes in Action: Deploying and managing containers and cloud-native applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.58 — 697 ratings — published
The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.83 — 157 ratings — published 2015
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,529 ratings — published 2018
On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.77 — 331 ratings — published 2010
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,237 ratings — published 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,788 ratings — published 2023
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.27 — 10,505 ratings — published 2023
An Underground Guide to Sewers: or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &c. (Mit Press)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.82 — 120 ratings — published 2019
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.60 — 126 ratings — published 2003
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,207 ratings — published 1986
Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,020 ratings — published
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.45 — 531 ratings — published 2016
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,280 ratings — published 2007
The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.46 — 173 ratings — published 2006
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,903 ratings — published 1994
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,960 ratings — published 2011
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.16 — 898 ratings — published 1971
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 873 ratings — published 2003
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,943 ratings — published 2012
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,368 ratings — published 2025
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.13 — 347 ratings — published 2023
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,262 ratings — published 2021
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.14 — 660 ratings — published
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,587 ratings — published 2021
Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.99 — 285 ratings — published 2020
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.15 — 97 ratings — published 2008
Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.99 — 132 ratings — published 2021
The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.06 — 110 ratings — published 2014
Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.15 — 424 ratings — published 2015
Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,033 ratings — published
The Promise of Infrastructure (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.31 — 36 ratings — published
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,956 ratings — published 2016
“Prior to the term of President Rodrigo Duterte, average infrastructure spending for the past five decades was only at 2.5 percent of the country’s GDP. The 2015 IMF report found that the Philippines had a lower public investment in comparison to other members of ASEAN.
We all know that Build, Build, Build is a program that is not only necessary but is in fact long overdue.
If the Philippines is to achieve its full potential, then it must do something to cut losses due to traffic congestion in Metro Manila, which has gone up to ₱3.5 billion a day. It was at this point that Secretary Mark Villar presented the plan to decongest the 90-year-old EDSA, a 23.8-kilometer circumferential highway, which has long exceeded its maximum capacity of 288,000 vehicles a day.”
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We all know that Build, Build, Build is a program that is not only necessary but is in fact long overdue.
If the Philippines is to achieve its full potential, then it must do something to cut losses due to traffic congestion in Metro Manila, which has gone up to ₱3.5 billion a day. It was at this point that Secretary Mark Villar presented the plan to decongest the 90-year-old EDSA, a 23.8-kilometer circumferential highway, which has long exceeded its maximum capacity of 288,000 vehicles a day.”
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“As for relegated/delegated responsibility to ensure organizational software licensing compliance, management is still accountable when intellectual property rights are violated. If the safeguarding responsibility is assigned to an ineffective and/or inefficient unit within an organization, IT audit should recommend an alternative arrangement after the risks are substantiated.”
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