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Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape

Name: Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
Author: Brian Hayes
ISBN: 9780393329599

by Brian Hayes

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“Original, highly readable. . . . An extraordinary book.”—Anne Eisenberg, Scientific American

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“Original, highly readable. . . . An extraordinary book.”—Anne Eisenberg, Scientific American

About the Author, Brian Hayes

Brian Hayes is a senior writer for American Scientist and the recipient of a National Magazine Award. He spent more than fifteen years working on this book. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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Wall Street Journal

Ample text explains the unfamiliar workings of blast furnaces, oil refineries, granite quarries and wind farms. Hundreds of photos provide helpful illustrations. . . . Artistry can be found in the strangest places.— John J Miller

Science

“Will help any technotourist to identify structures commonly encountered (if often overlooked) in outdoor urban habitats and industrial landscapes.”

Wired

When seen through the discriminating lens of author and photographer Brian Hayes, man-made objects appear as exquisite and natural as organic ones. Radar domes echo the beauty of a fly’s eyes, a crop-irrigation rig takes on the twiggy grace of a praying mantis, and the miles of telephone towers and wires along US highways fuse into the western horizon.— Elizabeth Svobada

Grist

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