Tagged “infrastructure”
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A Common Urban Intersection in the Netherlands
A detailed look at how a typical Dutch intersection separates cars, bikes and pedestrians so everyone flows smoothly, wi…
Backyard approach lighting at Adelaide Airport
A photo-filled look at Adelaide Airport's runway approach lights, which stand in suburban streets and residents' backyar…
BLDGBLOG
A long-running blog by Geoff Manaugh exploring architecture, landscape, and the built environment through speculative es…
Bridgehunter's Chronicles
A crowd-documented database of historic bridges across the United States, cataloging truss types, construction dates, an…
Construction Physics
Brian Potter's newsletter investigating why buildings, infrastructure, and manufacturing cost what they do, one deeply r…
Dan Wang's 2025 Letter
A sprawling annual letter on Silicon Valley versus the Chinese Communist Party, deep infrastructure, Stendhal, Pascal's…
Elasticspace
Designer Timo Arnall's archive of 25 years of films, photography and projects, including light-painted WiFi in Immateria…
Forgotten Relics
A photographic survey of abandoned British infrastructure including disused railways, canals, and industrial sites, walk…
Global Energy Monitor
A set of interactive global trackers mapping coal, gas, and renewable power plants, pipelines, and steel plants under co…
High Scalability
A long-running blog collecting case studies of how large companies scale their apps and infrastructure, with architectur…
Historic Bridges
A detailed photographic survey of historic bridges in the United States and beyond, rating each for engineering signific…
Ianvisits
A London-focused blog covering transport infrastructure, historic buildings, and quirky corners of the city, from new tu…
London Reconnections
A deeply researched blog on London's transport infrastructure, unpacking the politics and engineering behind tube extens…
NYCRoads
A detailed history of highways, bridges, and tunnels in the New York metro area, covering the engineering and politics b…
Open Infrastructure Map
A zoomable world map built from OpenStreetMap data showing power lines, substations, pipelines, telecom cables and other…
OpenRailwayMap
An OpenStreetMap-based world map of railway infrastructure, showing tracks, signals, speed limits, and electrification f…
Practical Engineering
Grady Hillhouse's entertaining and educational videos on civil engineering and public works, explaining the structures a…
Pruned
A landscape architecture and urbanism blog known for speculative essays on infrastructure, terrain, and the strange edge…
Pylon of the Month
A site devoted to electricity pylons, featuring a different tower each month along with writing on transmission networks…
Railway Gazette International
A trade publication covering global rail industry news, from new high-speed lines and metro extensions to rolling stock…
Roads.org.uk
A deep guide to UK roads with project updates, maps of every motorway and expressway, and detailed articles on the histo…
Rural Outside Plant
A photo tour of how telephone lines reach rural homes, with captioned images of cables, poles, pedestals and equipment f…
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
A candid engineering write-up on why Railway built its own data centers, covering power, cooling, racks, networking and…
Steve Alpert's Roads
A lifelong highway-drawing hobby: hand-drawn road maps and clay interchanges built since age three, shown with sketches…
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