Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape

By Brian Hayes

Categories: Engineering & Transportation

Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes is an illustrated field guide to the built systems that support modern life, from mines, oil wells and dams to power plants, bridges, highways and cell towers. First published in 2005, it was revised and updated in 2014. Hayes, a writer and former editor of American Scientist, explains how each structure works and why it looks the way it does, and pairs his explanations with hundreds of photographs taken across the United States and beyond.

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• Patrick Collison: “Chart inspired in part by [Infrastructure], which John and I really enjoyed reading over the break.”