There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.(nytimes.com)
50 points by bookofjoe | 23 comments
New York Times article about how New York City's more than one million street signs are made in the city's sign shop.
#urban-infrastructure on Hacker News
3 stories tagged urban-infrastructure, newest first.
LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators(basin.la)
100 points by big_toast | 83 comments
Article from The Basin examining why LA Metro's escalators, specified at 90 feet per minute, are slower than nearly all others worldwide.
Steam Networks(worksinprogress.co)
346 points by herbertl | 149 comments
A Works in Progress Issue 18 article by Jamie Rumbelow about steam networks, the district steam heating systems used in cities like New York.