Infrastructure


The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade
Underground
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Le Corbusier
The primordial instinct of every human being is to assure himself of a shelter. The various classes of workers in society to-day no long have dwellings adapted to their needs; neither the artizan nor the intellectual. It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of to-day: architecture or revolution.
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Urban decay is a thing. And the way to avoid urban decay is to actively plan for urban regeneration.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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