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The City, the River, the Bridge : Before and after the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse /

On August 1, 2007, just after 6:00 p.m., during the evening rush hour in Minneapolis, the 1,900-foot-long, eight-lane I-35W bridge buckled and crashed into the Mississippi River. The unimaginable had happened right on the doorstep of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. Many of the first...

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Otros Autores: Nunnally, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • This dynamic culture of learning / E. Thomas Sullivan
  • Introduction : university voices in the community / Patrick Nunnally
  • The bridge : object, metaphor, process
  • Fracture-critical : the I-35W bridge collapse as metaphor and omen / Thomas fisher
  • The infamous gusset plates / Roberto Ballarini and Minmao liao
  • Building the new bridge : process and politics in city-building / Patrick Nunnally
  • The city : neighborhoods and transportation
  • Neighborhoods confront a disaster aftermath / Judith A. Martin
  • From here to there to nowhere : competing philosophies of planning / Roger Miller
  • The river : after the collapse
  • A fickle partner : Minneapolis and the Mississippi River / John O. Anfinson
  • A bridge to somewhere / Mark Pedelty, Heather Dorsey, and Melissa Thompson
  • Old man river / Deborah L. Swackhamer
  • Conclusion : reimagining the Mississippi / Patrick Nunnally.