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.”
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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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