Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape.INFRASTRUCTURE: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape BRIAN HAYES Brian Hayes may refer to:
The typical modern landscape is telephone poles, water towers, and train tracks. This unusual book uses the model of the field guide to identify and describe these familiar, yet often ignored, elements of the industrial landscape. Hayes Hayes, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, rising in a lake NE of Lake Winnipeg, central Manitoba, Canada, and flowing NE to Hudson Bay. It was the chief route used by Hudson's Bay Company traders from Hudson Bay to Lake Winnipeg and the interior; York Factory, an encourages a closer look at the infrastructure that is so vital to modern life. whether his topic be mines for valuable commodities such as coal and granite granite, coarse-grained igneous rock of even texture and light color, composed chiefly of quartz and feldspars. It usually contains small quantities of mica or hornblende, and minor accessory minerals may be present. , waterworks waterworks: see water supply. and dams, or oil and gas pipelines, Hayes describes how this infrastructure is constructed, maintained, and operated. He also addresses the placement of infrastructure, noting which structures are in harmony with their natural surroundings. Hayes describes the inherent beauty of the humanmade world. W.W. Norton, 2005, 536 p., color photos, paperback, $35.00, |
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