Writings
Looking for scientific publications, book chapters, conference proceedings, invited talks, or media coverage? Find the full list in my CV and on the CSUN Lab website.
This page features my books and some of my fiction writing.
Publications
Books and More
The Infrastructure Book
Prometheus Books (2025)
Traveling to 16 world cities, the book explains how seven infrastructure systems work: water, wastewater, transport, electricity, natural gas, solid waste, and telecommunication infrastructure.
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Urban Infrastructure: Reflections for 2100
Independently Published (2021)
How will infrastructure be in 2100? How will cities transform to be more sustainable, resilient, and livable? This book features a series of science fiction short stories, essays, and poems contributed by 40 experts around the world.
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Urban Engineering for Sustainability
MIT Press (2019)
A textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science.
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The Power of Planning Cities
TEDx (2018)
In this TEDx talk at Walter Payton College Prep, I discuss how cities used to be planned, how they are shaped by challenges they face, and how practices must evolve to champion sustainability and resilience.
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