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"Abandoned infrastructure" as a book category covers works that focus on the human-made structures, systems, and networks that have been neglected, decommissioned, or left to decay—railways, factories, bridges, power plants, hospitals, tunnels, theme parks, and entire towns. Books in this genre can be photographic essays, historical investigations, urban exploration accounts, technical studies of industrial archaeology, memoirs of people who lived or worked around these places, or fiction that uses derelict built environments as atmosphere or metaphor. Common themes include the rise-and-fall of technologies and industries, the social and economic forces that lead to abandonment, the aesthetics and ecology of decay, preservation debates, safety and legality of exploration, and the haunting human stories tied to these sites. The category appeals to readers interested in history, design and engineering, urbanism, postindustrial landscapes, and the interplay between human ambition and entropy.

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