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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 — 4,919 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,584 ratings — published 2005
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.69 — 424 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 4.03 — 86 ratings — published 2014
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,013 ratings — published 2023
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.53 — 32,417 ratings — published 1974
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 — 632 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 — 7,979 ratings — published 2020
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,201 ratings — published 2012
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.78 — 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 — 8,291 ratings — published 2008
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,129 ratings — published
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,330 ratings — published 2020
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.22 — 24,197 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 — 4,573 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 — 7,241 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 — 701 ratings — published
The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.82 — 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 3.96 — 5,643 ratings — published 2018
Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,031 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 — 332 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 — 4,407 ratings — published 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,011 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 4.26 — 11,048 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 3.81 — 123 ratings — published 2019
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.60 — 127 ratings — published 2003
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,348 ratings — published 1986
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.45 — 532 ratings — published 2016
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,288 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 4.34 — 1,916 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 — 1,989 ratings — published 2011
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.16 — 901 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 — 876 ratings — published 2003
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,974 ratings — published 2012
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,913 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 4.14 — 365 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 — 15,021 ratings — published 2021
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.20 — 943 ratings — published 2022
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.14 — 667 ratings — published
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,619 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 — 290 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 — 98 ratings — published 2008
Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.01 — 136 ratings — published 2021
Kubernetes: Up & Running (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,169 ratings — published 2016
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 — 425 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 — 1,054 ratings — published
“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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“Municipalities that do not budget and plan for infrastructure upgrades will eventually become unlivable.”
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