Zach Caceres

Apr 27, 2023 | worksinprogress.co | Zach Caceres |Matthew Feeney |Paul Niehaus |Heidi Williams

Samuel Hughes, a contributing editor at Works in Progress, visits cities around to learn about gentle density. More articles from this issuePlastic roadsPlastic is eating the roads. It might be a cleaner, quieter, ready-made alternative to asphalt for the next generation of paving. Read more →Markets in fact-checkingExposing misinformation online is hard to do at scale and can veer into outright censorship. The wisdom of crowds can lead us to the answers.

Apr 19, 2023 | worksinprogress.co | Cody Moser |Sam Dumitriu |Lauren Gilbert |Zach Caceres

14 Mins Plastic is eating the roads. It might be a cleaner, quieter, ready-made alternative to asphalt for the next generation of paving. The asphalt on our roads is made of an aggregate, often rocks, sand, and gravel bound by a sticky substance called bitumen. Since at least the fifth century BC, humans used naturally occurring bitumen for waterproofing ships, adhering bricks, and embalming mummies.