Transportation infrastructure runs beneath all our books–from traffic jam plot devices to globe-hopping journalists to subway chase scenes in thrillers.
Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was Melissa Lafsky, the brand new editor at Infrastructurist. Lafsky talked about how writers of all stripes can learn something from infrastructure: from studying the most dangerous bridges in America to “apocalypse porn” in our horror movies.
Here’s more from the interview, exploring an under-reported global story: “The Chinese economy is going through the roof with production and exports. As a result, they’ve had a huge boom in infrastructure. For the Olympics, they built a whole new transportation infrastructure to impress everybody at the Olympics. They were even controlling the weather. In Beijing they have these weather control systems, it’s pretty fantastic … They have a hub of technology, a good deal of money, and an incredible need for infrastructure as the economy is growing.”