{"product_id":"infrastructure","title":"Infrastructure","description":"Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780393349832\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2014\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: W W Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003ePages: 568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eA companion to the man-made landscape that reveals how our industrial environment can be as dazzling as the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReplete 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"Smartfox Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41699925065861,"sku":"PR95077","price":134.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_STJZHAXQ255E.jpg?v=1781113924","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/infrastructure","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}