How infrastructure works : inside the systems that shape our world
by Chachra, Deb (Author)
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"A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation o... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Behind the lights
- Infrastructure as agency
- Living in the networks
- Cooperation on a global scale
- The social context of infrastructure
- The political context of infrastructure
- How infrastructure fails
- Infrastructure and climate instability
- An emerging future of infrastructure
- Rethinking the ultrastructure
- Infrastructural citizenship.