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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,575 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,557 ratings — published
Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.47 — 382 ratings — published 2005
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.70 — 394 ratings — published 2014
Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.20 — 608 ratings — published 1976
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 — 7,432 ratings — published 2020
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.01 — 79 ratings — published 2014
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.52 — 27,990 ratings — published 1974
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.75 — 260 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 — 8,156 ratings — published 2008
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,801 ratings — published
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,502 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 — 22,629 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 — 4,405 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 — 6,812 ratings — published 2006
Kubernetes in Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.59 — 673 ratings — published
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 — 328 ratings — published 2010
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.64 — 880 ratings — published
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,441 ratings — published 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,904 ratings — published 2023
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,640 ratings — published 2020
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 3.80 — 109 ratings — published 2019
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.56 — 118 ratings — published 2003
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,765 ratings — published 1986
The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.84 — 152 ratings — published 2015
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,334 ratings — published 1972
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,221 ratings — published 2018
Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 980 ratings — published
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,234 ratings — published 2007
The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.45 — 168 ratings — published 2006
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,852 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 3.90 — 1,882 ratings — published 2011
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.16 — 856 ratings — published 1971
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,875 ratings — published 2012
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 4.15 — 294 ratings — published
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 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,598 ratings — published 2023
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.18 — 610 ratings — published
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,454 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 3.98 — 254 ratings — published 2020
Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.98 — 126 ratings — published 2021
The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.06 — 108 ratings — published 2014
Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.15 — 412 ratings — published 2015
Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.70 — 10 ratings — published
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.13 — 943 ratings — published
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,129 ratings — published 2011
Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (Softshell Books)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.83 — 42 ratings — published 1983
Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.09 — 151 ratings — published 2016
Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.78 — 868 ratings — published 2016
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.44 — 523 ratings — published 2016
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,511 ratings — published 2015
“We cannot, of course, physically harm the President of the United States, but it is not illegal to lead him into a bramble, some uneven pavement, rocky terrain. Let your deteriorating roads, bridges, and public schools work for us.”
― Weakness is the Brand
― Weakness is the Brand
“The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure -- roads, bridges, schools, dams -- that it would take more than a trillion and half dollars over five years to bring it back up to standard. Instead, these types of expenditures are being cut back. At the same time, public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. The well-off, meanwhile, will withdraw into gated communities, their needs met by privatized providers. ”
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
