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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393349837
ISBN-139780393349832
eBay Product ID (ePID)201632014
Product Key Features
Book TitleInfrastructure : a Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
Number of Pages568 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicBuildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Infrastructure, Civil / General, Sociology / Urban
IllustratorYes
GenreArchitecture, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics
AuthorBrian Hayes
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight69.4 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-019356
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsA richly illustrated trove of photographs and details about the structures that make modern life possible., One of the most magical books I've chanced upon...Pick up Brian Hayes, and the power lines and drains around you will soon reclaim their just share of beauty and significance., When seen through the discriminating lens of author and photographer Brian Hayes, man-made objects appear as exquisite and natural as organic ones.
Dewey Decimal711/.6
SynopsisReplete 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., 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. 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. Infrastructure is a compelling and clear guide for those who want to explore and understand this mysterious world we've made for ourselves. 500 color illustrations.
LC Classification NumberTS190.5.H39 2014
