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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,624 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,563 ratings — published 2005
Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.47 — 383 ratings — published 2005
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.70 — 400 ratings — published 2014
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.52 — 28,593 ratings — published 1974
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.01 — 80 ratings — published 2014
Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.20 — 615 ratings — published 1976
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 — 7,529 ratings — published 2020
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,855 ratings — published 1977
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,878 ratings — published 2006
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.76 — 264 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 — 8,172 ratings — published 2008
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,858 ratings — published
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,603 ratings — published 2012
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 — 4,428 ratings — published 2013
Kubernetes in Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.59 — 674 ratings — published
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,855 ratings — published 1986
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 — 329 ratings — published 2010
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.64 — 904 ratings — published
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,626 ratings — published 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,068 ratings — published 2023
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,748 ratings — published 1961
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,732 ratings — published 2020
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 3.79 — 111 ratings — published 2019
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.57 — 121 ratings — published 2003
The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.83 — 154 ratings — published 2015
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,491 ratings — published 1972
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,276 ratings — published 2018
Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 982 ratings — published
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,251 ratings — published 2007
The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.45 — 169 ratings — published 2006
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,864 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 3.90 — 1,895 ratings — published 2011
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.16 — 862 ratings — published 1971
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,890 ratings — published 2012
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 4.15 — 304 ratings — published
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 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,996 ratings — published 2023
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.17 — 620 ratings — published
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,467 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 3.98 — 258 ratings — published 2020
Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.98 — 127 ratings — published 2021
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,684 ratings — published 2014
The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.06 — 109 ratings — published 2014
Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.15 — 417 ratings — published 2015
Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.70 — 10 ratings — published
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.12 — 953 ratings — published
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,155 ratings — published 2011
Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (Softshell Books)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.86 — 43 ratings — published 1983
Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.08 — 152 ratings — published 2016
Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.78 — 874 ratings — published 2016
“As a student, I dreamed of a nation without roadblocks. I didn’t realize that 10 years after, I’d be part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Build, Build, Build team. And since July 2016, according to Secretary Mark Villar, DPWH has completed 29,264 kilometers of roads, and 5,950 bridges.”
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“We cannot, of course, physically harm the President of the United States, but it is not illegal to lead him into a bramble, some uneven pavement, rocky terrain. Let your deteriorating roads, bridges, and public schools work for us.”
― Weakness is the Brand
― Weakness is the Brand
