Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene

by Shaylih Muehlmann and Gaston R. Gordillo

Book Overview

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles--sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001488
• ISBN13: 9781478001485
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"