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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,807 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,578 ratings — published 2005
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.68 — 415 ratings — published 2014
Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.47 — 383 ratings — published 2005
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.01 — 84 ratings — published 2014
Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.20 — 624 ratings — published 1976
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.63 — 969 ratings — published 2023
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,838 ratings — published 2020
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,781 ratings — published 1974
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.77 — 271 ratings — published 1997
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,238 ratings — published 2008
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,040 ratings — published
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,124 ratings — published 2020
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,997 ratings — published 2012
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.22 — 23,700 ratings — published 1977
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,513 ratings — published 2013
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,114 ratings — published 2006
Kubernetes in Action: Deploying and managing containers and cloud-native applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.58 — 694 ratings — published
The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.83 — 156 ratings — published 2015
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,469 ratings — published 2018
On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.77 — 331 ratings — published 2010
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,156 ratings — published 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,647 ratings — published 2023
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.27 — 10,278 ratings — published 2023
An Underground Guide to Sewers: or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &c. (Mit Press)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.81 — 119 ratings — published 2019
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.58 — 125 ratings — published 2003
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,146 ratings — published 1986
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,090 ratings — published 1972
Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,012 ratings — published
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,272 ratings — published 2007
The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.46 — 173 ratings — published 2006
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,899 ratings — published 1994
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,951 ratings — published 2011
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.16 — 888 ratings — published 1971
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,938 ratings — published 2012
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.89 — 52,249 ratings — published 2025
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.12 — 344 ratings — published 2023
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,960 ratings — published 2021
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.15 — 657 ratings — published
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,572 ratings — published 2021
Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.99 — 281 ratings — published 2020
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.15 — 97 ratings — published 2008
Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.99 — 132 ratings — published 2021
The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.06 — 110 ratings — published 2014
Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.16 — 422 ratings — published 2015
Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,021 ratings — published
The Promise of Infrastructure (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.31 — 35 ratings — published
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,946 ratings — published 2016
Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (Softshell Books)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.87 — 47 ratings — published 1983
“We must come to the table knowing that there is no barangay, city, province, government, or country that can solve the COVID-19 crisis alone. More than ever, human collectivism is key. We have prepared for wars even before they happened. Maybe this time, we ought to work together, collectively and purposively, regardless of race, ethnicity, political affiliation, and religion, in finding a solution to a threat that has shaken our very definition of civilization.”
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“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 in Metro Manila, which has gone up to ₱3.5 billion a day. It was at this point that Secretary Mark Villar presented the plan to decongest the 90-year-old EDSA, a 23.8-kilometer circumferential highway, which has long exceeded its maximum capacity of 288,000 vehicles a day.”
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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 in Metro Manila, which has gone up to ₱3.5 billion a day. It was at this point that Secretary Mark Villar presented the plan to decongest the 90-year-old EDSA, a 23.8-kilometer circumferential highway, which has long exceeded its maximum capacity of 288,000 vehicles a day.”
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