THE INFRASTRUCTURE BOOK: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives, Sybil Derrible
Clean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet – all this infrastructure is what makes cities work and powers our lives, often seamlessly and silently. Virtually everything we do and consume depends on infrastructure. Yet, most people have little to no idea how these systems work. How […]
Derrible
Sybil Derrible is the author of The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives (Prometheus Books 2025) and Urban Engineering for Sustainability (MIT Press 2019). He is a Professor of Urban Engineering and the Director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks (CSUN) Laboratory at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). As […]
THE INFRASTRUCTURE BOOK, Sybil Derrible PhD
How cities work and power our lives in every area of urban infrastructure: water, transport, energy and telecommunications; illustrated with case studies of major cities throughout the world from Tokyo to Cairo to Los Angeles. Sybil Derrible is Professor of Urban Engineering and Director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks Laboratory at the University […]