Replete with the author's striking photographs, Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they are there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected places. Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing and waste, this is the perfect companion to the industrial landscape. The objects that fill our everyday environment, such as streetlights, railway tracks, antenna towers, motorway overpasses, satellite dishes and thousands of other manufactured items, are so familiar they have become so familiar we hardly notice them. Larger and more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of the landscape: coal mines, nuclear power plants, oil refineries and steel mills, to name a few. This book is a compelling and clear guide for those who want to explore and understand this mysterious world created by man.
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BRIAN HAYES is a senior writer for American Scientist and a recipient of a National Magazine Award.
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THE RAW MATERIALS FOR BUILDING a civilization are mainly things we dig up out of the ground: fuels such as coal, uranium, and petroleum; the ores of iron, copper, aluminum, and dozens of other metals; stone, sand, and clay for building; and a miscellany of other minerals such as sulfur and phosphates. Read the first page
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THE RAW MATERIALS FOR BUILDING a civilization are mainly things we dig up out of the ground: fuels such as coal, uranium, and petroleum; the ores of iron, copper, aluminum, and dozens of other metals; stone, sand, and clay for building; and a miscellany of other minerals such as sulfur and phosphates. Read the first page
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I don't think I own a (non-fiction) book that I've had more pleasure reading! My Copy of Infrastructure has been read by many people, everyone just gets sucked into the fascinating detail that Hayes brings to his tour of the America landscape, the 'stuff' you see, but never think about the origin and purpose of. You have to accept that this is a very US focused book, which I can imagine would grate on some European readers, but for me, I was able to let that go and just enjoy the industrial Landscape. Speaking of Landscape, the Photography is top notch and it works just as well as a coffee table book as it does as a in-depth read. I enjoyed it massively, and left it wishing there was going to be some kind of follow up to continue the journey. (I found that "Tubes" by Andrew Blum, was in the same vein) Infrastructure is a recommended read.
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Hayes, writes clearly and concisely on everything from electricity generating to sewerage disposal [not to mention motorway gradients].
Probably better to dip into than to read at one sitting, but an impressive book
Probably better to dip into than to read at one sitting, but an impressive book
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a great book.....if you have any interest at all in all the engineering that surrounds us and is so significant to our civilisation then you will find this book informative and easy to understand.
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