Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape

Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Hayes, Brian. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393059977.

A companion to the man-made landscape that reveals how our industrial environment can be as dazzling as the natural world. Replete with the authors 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 theyre there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected places—awakening and fulfilling a curiosity you didnt 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 weve made for ourselves. 500 color illustrations.