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
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
“ Time, Cost, and Scope do not run a project; the invisible chains of risk associated with them do. To manage the project, you must manage the cascade. ”
― Nikhil Dhand

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

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