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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure

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A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of The united states’s crumbling infrastructure.

Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and up to date perspectives, explaining how crucial their maintenance is to The united states’s economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of The united states’s highway system–our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights–all an important to our national and local infrastructure.

A compelling work of history, The Road Taken may be an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and somebody with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the US is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take within the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will largely decide our future national prosperity.

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