Infrastructure A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape

Name: Infrastructure A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
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ISBN: 9780393329599

ISBN-10: 0393329593

ISBN-13: 9780393329599

Edition: 2006

Authors: Brian Hayes

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"Original, highly readable.An extraordinary book."Anne Eisenberg, Scientific American A companion to the man-made landscape that reveals how our industrial environment can be as dazzling as the natural world. Replete with the author's striking photographs, Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they're there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected placesawakening and fulfilling a curiosity you didn't know you had. Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing, and waste, this is the "Book of Everything" for the industrial landscape. …

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 9.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.740
Language: English

Brian Hayes is a senior writer for American Scientistand a recipient of a National Magazine Award. Helives in the Boston area.