Description
In The Infrastructure Book, urban engineering expert Sybil Derrible pulls back the curtain on the essential systems that power modern cities-clean water, electricity, transit, waste, and even the Internet-revealing how they work, where they fail, and how they can become more sustainable. Through engaging case studies from sixteen global cities, Derrible shows how the complex web of infrastructure quietly shapes our daily lives-and why understanding it is crucial to our future.
Author: Sybil Derrible
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 03/04/2025
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9781493086641
ISBN10: 1493086642
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Civil | General
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects
About the Author
Sybil Derrible is a professor of urban engineering and director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks Laboratory at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is a world-renowned scholar on infrastructure and a lead author on the United Nations Environmental Program's Seventh Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) report. He received the Walter L. Huber Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers and a CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation.