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How Infrastructure Works : Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, & all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs & enabling lives of astounding ease & 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—& it consists of the most complex & vast technological systems ever created by humans. A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, & pipes that deliver water, energy, and & information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer & 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, & who pays the costs. Across the U.S. & elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect & the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of

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Author

Deb Chachra

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593086599

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Civil & Structural Engineering, Stem