Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure

by Dirk van Laak

A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.

Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today's strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape? In Lifelines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262546388
• ISBN13: 9780262546386
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"