The grid was created, he writes, relying on David Nye’s 1990 book, “Electrifying America,” to “optimize efficiency (and hence, profitability) for the producer.

The Grid Book by Hannah B Higgins. MIT Press, 312pp, £16.95. mitpress.mit.edu. The Grid Book is a sweeping, fascinating cultural history of 10 grids ‘that changed the world’, and author Hannah B ...

The Grid Book provides us with a passionate and obsessive answer to this question, in spite of the author’s charming self-abnegation. Read all of AN‘s Friday Reviews here.

The U.S. electric grid was not designed to meet the increased demands of a restructured electricity marketplace, the energy needs of a digital society or the increased use and variability of ...

A sense of momentum thrums through Elaine Sexton’s new collection of poetry, “Drive” (Grid Books). And it’s present even amidst the stalls, the wrong turns, the mechanical failures. We are ...

Gerard Koeppel’s new book shines more light on the evolution of Manhattan’s street grid. It is one of the paradoxes of the human condition that we take infrastructure far more seriously in the ...