Trying to ID a book - urban infrastructure field guide for dummies...

July 2, 2007 3:02 AM

Having a helluva time finding a book I saw once: It was a guide to roadside infrastructure items, including electric boxes, lightpoles, etc...

I saw this book at a gift shop in Los Angeles over a year ago, and thought I'd be able to find it on Amazon... but when I got home I'd forgotten the title, and the next time I went to the bookstore it was gone, and the salespeople had no recollection of it.

I believe the book also discussed the different types of pavement and asphalt and why they were used. In general, it was like an urban infrastructure field guide for a casual reader...

Any guesses as to what book this could have been?

posted by Unsomnambulist to travel & transportation (3 comments total)

is it this? (Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape, Brian Hayes)

The other one that comes to mind is this one (Field Guide to Urban Sprawl, Dolores Hayden)

Both are fun books, even if it isn't exactly what you are looking for.
posted by printdevil at 3:39 AM on July 2, 2007 [1 favorite]

Perhaps it was A Field Guide to Roadside Technology.
posted by jdfan at 6:31 AM on July 2, 2007 [1 favorite]

I believe it was the Field Guide to Roadside Technology, but printdevils look very close as well.

Thanks guys!
posted by Unsomnambulist at 10:03 AM on July 2, 2007