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
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
Marvin Cheung
Culture as infrastructure describes the culture and cultural organizations that allow stakeholders to contest norms’ interpretations and adapt informal constraints in line with the goals of the global community, given the absence of enforcement mechanisms at a global level for formal constraints (i.e. laws and policies).
Marvin Cheung, 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

Robert A. Caro
He [Robert Moses] built parks and playgrounds with a lavish hand, but they were parks and playgrounds for the rich and comfortable...Recreation facilities for the poor he doled out like a miser.
Robert Caro

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