Awards

• Winner of Sally Hacker Prize 2006

Overview

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.

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Why do you want to know about standpipes and manholes? Take a look, and you will. -- Erica Wagner - The Times One of the most magical books I've chanced upon... -- Alain de Botton - The Observer When seen through the discriminating lens of author and photographer Brian Hayes, man-made objects appear as exquisite and natural as organic ones. -- Wired Beautifully illustrated, continually informative, it richly deserves to become this season's unlikely bestseller. -- Alain de Botton - The Independent

Brilliant . . . offering history and context . . . Infrastructure delivers on its promise to be the book of everything for our human-made American landscape. --Jim Rossi

Author Information

Brian Hayes is a senior writer for American Scientist and a recipient of a National Magazine Award. He lives in the Boston area.

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