Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge : a case of shadowboxing with nature / Karen Trapenberg Frick.
By: Frick, Karen Trapenberg [author.].
Series: Planning, history and environment series.Publisher: London : Routledge, 2016Description: xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415736589 (hardback : alk. paper).Subject(s): Bridges -- California -- San Francisco -- Design and construction | San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)Genre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | TG25.S237 F75 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000009158 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-185) and index.
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.