Cover of Infrastructure

Book 2005

Infrastructure

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Publisher
W. W. Norton
Language
English
Published
2005
  • Landscape architecture
  • Industrial buildings
  • Long Now Manual for Civilization
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Industrial Architecture
  • Constructions industrielles
  • Architecture du paysage
  • Architecture industrielle

Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing, and waste, this is the "Book of Everything" for the industrial landscape. The objects that fill our everyday environment are streetlights, railroad tracks, antenna towers, highway overpasses, power lines, satellite dishes, and thousands of other manufactured items, many of them so familiar we hardly notice them. Larger and more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of the landscape: coal mines, nuclear power plants, grain elevators, oil refineries, and steel mills, to name a few.