the infrastructure book: how cities work and power our lives

One unforgettable journey through seven infrastructure systems across sixteen world cities.

Sybil Derrible is a Professor of Urban Engineering and the Director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks (CSUN) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is a world-renown scholar on infrastructure and a Lead Author on the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Seventh Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) report.

Sybil Derrible is the current chair of the AMR10 Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection Committee with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the past chair of the Sustainable Urban Systems section with the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE).

His research interests lie at the nexus of infrastructure planning and design, urban metabolism, and complexity and data science. He teaches on urban engineering and data science.