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Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes

This is like the story Leo Kottke tells about a book on jungle diseases. I imagine you’d start looking at a book on the industrial landscape and you’d get sicker as you went along but you’d not be able to stop.

The other obvious reference is the great sketch book R Crumb had put together of power lines and water towers and such to use in his books.

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