{"product_id":"how-infrastructure-works-inside-the-systems-that-shape-our-world","title":"How Infrastructure Works: Inside The Systems That Shape Our World","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780593086599 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"766.906\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: none; position: relative; overflow: hidden; min-height: 100px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-top: 0em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); height: 796.906px;\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"slot-header\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: Fort-Bold; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eABOUT \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e“Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHow Infrastructure Works\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e An Immense World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eInfrastructure 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 of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eAcross the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them—and fix them, together—before it’s too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 600px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding-top: 60px;\"\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-link more\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0.75; font-family: Fort-Book; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; text-transform: uppercase; appearance: button; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: middle; background-image: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: transparent; text-wrap: nowrap; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px; border-radius: 0px; user-select: none; height: 30px; max-width: 168px; box-shadow: none; outline: none 0px;\"\u003eSEE LESS\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-listen-to-a-clip\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-listen show\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; min-height: 100px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); margin-top: 0em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780593086599 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"766.906\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: none; position: relative; overflow: hidden; min-height: 100px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-top: 0em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); height: 796.906px;\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"slot-header\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: Fort-Bold; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eABOUT \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e“Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHow Infrastructure Works\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e An Immense World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eInfrastructure 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 of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eAcross the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them—and fix them, together—before it’s too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 600px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding-top: 60px;\"\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-link more\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0.75; font-family: Fort-Book; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; text-transform: uppercase; appearance: button; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: middle; background-image: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: transparent; text-wrap: nowrap; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px; border-radius: 0px; user-select: none; height: 30px; max-width: 168px; box-shadow: none; outline: none 0px;\"\u003eSEE LESS\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-listen-to-a-clip\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-listen show\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; min-height: 100px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); margin-top: 0em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780593086599 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"766.906\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: none; position: relative; overflow: hidden; min-height: 100px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-top: 0em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); height: 796.906px;\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"slot-header\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: Fort-Bold; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eABOUT \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e“Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHow Infrastructure Works\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e An Immense World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eInfrastructure 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 of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eAcross the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them—and fix them, together—before it’s too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 600px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding-top: 60px;\"\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-link more\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0.75; font-family: Fort-Book; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; text-transform: uppercase; appearance: button; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: middle; background-image: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: transparent; text-wrap: nowrap; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px; border-radius: 0px; user-select: none; height: 30px; max-width: 168px; box-shadow: none;\"\u003eSEE LESS\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-listen-to-a-clip\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-listen show\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; min-height: 100px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); margin-top: 0em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780593086599 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"766.906\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: none; position: relative; overflow: hidden; min-height: 100px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-top: 0em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); height: 796.906px;\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"slot-header\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: Fort-Bold; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eABOUT \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e“Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHow Infrastructure Works\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e An Immense World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eInfrastructure 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 of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eAcross the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them—and fix them, together—before it’s too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 600px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding-top: 60px;\"\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-link more\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0.75; font-family: Fort-Book; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; 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-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: none; position: relative; overflow: hidden; min-height: 100px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-top: 0em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); height: 796.906px;\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"slot-header\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: Fort-Bold; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eABOUT \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e“Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eHow Infrastructure Works\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e An Immense World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eInfrastructure 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 of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eA soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eAcross the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them—and fix them, together—before it’s too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 600px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding-top: 60px;\"\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-link more\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0.75; font-family: Fort-Book; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; text-transform: uppercase; appearance: button; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: middle; background-image: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: transparent; text-wrap: nowrap; padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px; border-radius: 0px; user-select: none; height: 30px; max-width: 168px; box-shadow: none;\"\u003eSEE LESS\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-listen-to-a-clip\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-listen show\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; min-height: 100px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(151, 151, 151); margin-top: 0em;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700 !important;'\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important;'\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700 !important;'\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important;'\u003eHow Infrastructure Works\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700 !important;'\u003e is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important;'\u003e An Immense World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700 !important;'\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eInfrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. 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Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca name=\"#listen-to-a-clip\" id=\"listenToAClip\" style='box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(250, 100, 0); font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca name=\"#listen-to-a-clip\" id=\"listenToAClip\" style='box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(250, 100, 0); font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca name=\"#listen-to-a-clip\" id=\"listenToAClip\" style='box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(250, 100, 0); font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca name=\"#listen-to-a-clip\" id=\"listenToAClip\" style='box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(250, 100, 0); font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca name=\"#listen-to-a-clip\" id=\"listenToAClip\" style='box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(250, 100, 0); font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family: Fort-Book, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basheer Graphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44122757202132,"sku":"9780593086599","price":43.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1105\/7032\/products\/9780593086599.jpg?v=1700621213","url":"https:\/\/www.basheergraphic.com\/products\/how-infrastructure-works-inside-the-systems-that-shape-our-world","provider":"Basheer Graphics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}