Infrastory is about the infrastructure that built the modern world and the history, economics, politics, and engineering behind it.
This covers everything from railways and highways, dams and pipelines, ports and power grids, airports and water systems, and more. Every piece of infrastructure has a story from the people who imagined it to the forces that shaped it and the ways it remade the geography around it. Those stories are usually more interesting and more consequential than the infrastructure gets credit for.
New essays publish every week.
Jonathan English is a writer and Founding Principal at Infrastory Insights, an infrastructure policy consultancy. He’s also a Fellow at NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. He holds a PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia University and has published in The Atlantic, Bloomberg CityLab, and the Globe and Mail among other publications.
Reece Martin is a retired YouTube creator, transportation consultant, and technologist.
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