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Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge : a case of shadowboxing with nature / Karen Trapenberg Frick.
Van Pelt Library TG25.S237 F75 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frick, Karen Trapenberg, author.
- Series:
- Planning, history, and the environment series
- Planning, history and environment series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.).
- Bridges--California--San Francisco--Design and construction.
- Bridges.
- Bridges--Design and construction.
- California--San Francisco.
- California--San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
- Contents:
- Mind over matter
- Field guide to megaproject interpretation
- Time in suspension
- Past as prologue
- Engineering between the fault lines
- A race against time
- Shockwaves by design
- Ground motions when pedalling for a pathway and train tracks
- Hurry up and wait and wait
- Freefalling to vertigo
- Back to the future : the "Big one" of skyrocketing costs
- Aftershock : hubris and shadowboxing with nature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415736589
- 0415736587
- 9780415832212
- 0415832217
- OCLC:
- 909324592
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