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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 — 4,846 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,577 ratings — published 2005
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.69 — 419 ratings — published 2014
Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.46 — 383 ratings — published 2005
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.02 — 85 ratings — published 2014
Underground: An Illustrated Journey Through City Infrastructure and How Systems Work for Kids (Ages 8-12)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.20 — 626 ratings — published 1976
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.62 — 990 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 — 7,898 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 — 31,288 ratings — published 1974
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.77 — 274 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 — 8,258 ratings — published 2008
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,085 ratings — published
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,212 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 — 9,088 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 — 23,874 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 — 4,531 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 — 7,161 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 — 697 ratings — published
The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.83 — 157 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 — 5,534 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 4.42 — 4,248 ratings — published 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,801 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 — 10,536 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 3.82 — 120 ratings — published 2019
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.60 — 126 ratings — published 2003
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,216 ratings — published 1986
Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,020 ratings — published
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.45 — 531 ratings — published 2016
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,280 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 — 1,904 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 — 1,962 ratings — published 2011
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.16 — 898 ratings — published 1971
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 874 ratings — published 2003
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,945 ratings — published 2012
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,595 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 4.13 — 348 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 — 14,305 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 4.14 — 660 ratings — published
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,589 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 — 286 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 4.00 — 133 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 4.15 — 424 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 — 1,035 ratings — published
The Promise of Infrastructure (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.31 — 36 ratings — published
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,957 ratings — published 2016
“Once something becomes infrastructure, it stops being gentle.”
― Threadborn Echo
― Threadborn Echo
“As for relegated/delegated responsibility to ensure organizational software licensing compliance, management is still accountable when intellectual property rights are violated. If the safeguarding responsibility is assigned to an ineffective and/or inefficient unit within an organization, IT audit should recommend an alternative arrangement after the risks are substantiated.”
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