Works in Progress
Works in Progress is an online magazine about new & underrated ways to improve the world. worksinprogress.co
- 1760: 🇫🇷25 million people 🏴5.5 million 2025 🇫🇷68 million 🏴56 million If France’s population growth had kept pace with England’s, there would be 250 million Frenchmen and another 320 million abroad. What happened? 🧵 www.worksinprogress.news/p/570-millio...
- There exists a popular sentiment that we can’t build as well as we used to and our best days are behind us. But when we choose to, we can still build beautiful and interesting developments. Here’s a tour of 10 new projects that are creating a better built environment. 🧵
- Planes aren’t getting faster. Buildings in the developed world aren’t getting taller. Roads are getting slower. But the world’s largest passenger ship record has been broken 9 times this century. They show what is possible w/o the constraints that stifle progress on dry land. 🧵
- We can still build great things, at least in some places. Here’s a run down of 10 major new infrastructure projects that have happened recently.
