Infrastructure


The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade
Underground: An Illustrated Journey Through City Infrastructure and How Systems Work for Kids (Ages 8-12)
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
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
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
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
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 ...more
Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

Crumbling Infrastructure → Accelerate projects under the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) and promote private sector participation.
Dipti Dhakul

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