I just finished reading Ed Sobey's "Unscrewed" which is a fun little book about taking household things apart and using their parts. The book notes that he also wrote a book about roadside technology systems, so I looked that one up on Amazon, and then found my way to this book.
I've wanted this book for at least ten years without knowing it existed. I have to decide when I can afford to buy it. Maybe not right now, but I must own this book.
Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape (Revised and Updated) ETA: At first I was going to hold out for the revised edition, but I think I'm going to go ahead and order the much less expensive original now, and maybe get the revised one later on.