How Infrastructure Works

How Infrastructure Works

Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

Deb Chachra

Infrastructural networks are enduring, and that endurance shapes the way that new systems build on top of—or underneath, or alongside—the older ones. Water mains and gas pipes run along and beneath roads. Train tracks often followed watercourses as a path of least resistance through the terrain, telegraph lines were sent alongside the rails, and then roads were built along the same path, and electrical wires strung, and telephone cables.
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