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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,685 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,568 ratings — published 2005
Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.47 — 382 ratings — published 2005
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.68 — 410 ratings — published 2014
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.04 — 82 ratings — published 2014
Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.20 — 617 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 — 7,639 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 — 29,322 ratings — published 1974
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 — 6,953 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 — 8,194 ratings — published 2008
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.64 — 927 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,922 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 — 8,716 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 — 23,150 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 — 4,446 ratings — published 2013
Kubernetes in Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.58 — 679 ratings — published
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,869 ratings — published 2020
The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
by (shelved 5 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.83 — 155 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 — 5,331 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 — 330 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 — 3,791 ratings — published 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,277 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 3.79 — 113 ratings — published 2019
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.59 — 124 ratings — published 2003
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,943 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 — 18,666 ratings — published 1972
Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 993 ratings — published
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,256 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 — 170 ratings — published 2006
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,875 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 — 1,902 ratings — published 2011
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.16 — 871 ratings — published 1971
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,904 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 4.13 — 315 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 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,478 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 — 633 ratings — published
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,503 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 — 263 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 — 95 ratings — published 2008
Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.98 — 130 ratings — published 2021
The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.06 — 107 ratings — published 2014
Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.15 — 420 ratings — published 2015
Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.12 — 969 ratings — published
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,579 ratings — published 1991
The Promise of Infrastructure (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.29 — 34 ratings — published
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,192 ratings — published 2011
Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (Softshell Books)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 3.84 — 43 ratings — published 1983
Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as infrastructure)
avg rating 4.06 — 154 ratings — published 2016
“Critics have said it cannot be done and yet the output of 6.5 million workers involved in the Build, Build, Build program has proved them wrong.
Another misconception was that most projects are only situated in Metro Manila or are operated under the modality of public private partnership. This is far from the truth. In fact, less than five percent of the Build, Build, Build projects charge toll or operate under a concession agreement.”
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Another misconception was that most projects are only situated in Metro Manila or are operated under the modality of public private partnership. This is far from the truth. In fact, less than five percent of the Build, Build, Build projects charge toll or operate under a concession agreement.”
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“The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure -- roads, bridges, schools, dams -- that it would take more than a trillion and half dollars over five years to bring it back up to standard. Instead, these types of expenditures are being cut back. At the same time, public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. The well-off, meanwhile, will withdraw into gated communities, their needs met by privatized providers. ”
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
