Infrastructure
Subtitle: a guide to the industrial landscape
By: Brian Hayes
Edition: Revised and updated.
Publisher: W W Norton Company; W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9780393349832
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics); Landscape architecture; Industrial Architecture; Industrial buildings
Other titles: Guide to the industrial landscape
Description: Overview:  Replete with the author's striking photographs, the revised and expanded edition of Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide to all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world.  In exploring railroad tracks, antenna towers, highway overpasses, power lines, coal mines, nuclear power plants, grain elevators, oil refineries, steel mills, and more, Brian Hayes reveals how our familiar and often-overlooked industrial environment can be as dazzling as nature.  With a new chapter reflecting on recent natural and technological disasters-from Hurricane Katrina to the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors- Infrastructure is a compelling and clear guide for those who want to explore and understand this mysterious world we've made for ourselves.
Notes: "Previous edition published under the titles Infrastructure: a field guide to the industrial landscape ; and Infrastructure: the book of everything for the industrial landscape"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-544) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Out of the earth; title: Waterworks; title: Food and farming; title: Oil and gas; title: Power plants; title: Power grid; title: Communications; title: On the road; title: Railroad; title: Bridges and tunnels; title: Aviation; title: Shipping; title: Wastes and recycling; title: Afterword:  World we've made; title: Acknowledgments; title: Further reading; title: Index.