Winner of the 2015New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York l

"Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrating the bicentennial of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan of Manhattan, this

Investigates the systems of infrastructure that sustain the world and the cultures of historical periods, following various elements, from electricity and pavem

Of all the elements of a neighborhood, the pattern of streets and their infrastructure is the most enduring. Given the 20th century's additions to the range of

Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this