Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape Reprint Edition

Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape Reprint Edition book cover

Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape Reprint Edition

Author(s): Brian Hayes (Author)

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication Date: September 17, 2006
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 544 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393329593
  • ISBN-13: 9780393329599

Book Description

“Original, highly readable. . . . An extraordinary book.”―Anne Eisenberg, Scientific American

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Brilliant . . . offering history and context . . . Infrastructure delivers on its promise to be the ‘book of everything’ for our human-made American landscape.”
Jim Rossi, Grist

“Will help any technotourist to identify structures commonly encountered (if often overlooked) in outdoor urban habitats and industrial landscapes.”
Science

“Ample text explains the unfamiliar workings of blast furnaces, oil refineries, granite quarries and wind farms. Hundreds of photos provide helpful illustrations. . . . Artistry can be found in the strangest places.”
John J Miller, Wall Street Journal

“When seen through the discriminating lens of author and photographer Brian Hayes, man-made objects appear as exquisite and natural as organic ones. Radar domes echo the beauty of a fly’s eyes, a crop-irrigation rig takes on the twiggy grace of a praying mantis, and the miles of telephone towers and wires along US highways fuse into the western horizon.”
Elizabeth Svobada, Wired

About the Author

Brian Hayes is a senior writer for American Scientist and a recipient of a National Magazine Award. He lives in the Boston area.

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