Tubes, bridges & sewers: The centuries-old infrastructure Londoners still use today
Today’s Londoners would be hard-pressed not to use at least some of the infrastructure left over from the 19th Century.
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Extreme weather and climate change are threatening bridges with collapse
The recent collapse of a bridge in Grinton, North Yorkshire, raises lots of questions about how prepared we are for…
By“A story of incompetence, arrogance, privilege and power”: A brief history of the Garden Bridge
As well as an eye-watering £43m bill for taxpayers for this Johnsonian indulgence, what has been revealed this week is…
ByAn official and objective ranking of the seven bridges linking Newcastle and Gateshead
I’ve just got back from Newcastle. It was completely brilliant – great architecture, great cultural offering, great seaside, great pubs…
ByBoris Johnson wants a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland. But he’s not the first to suggest it.
It wouldn’t be a Boris Johnson political intervention if it didn’t involve a massive and ultimately highly unlikely bridge. As…
More than a bridge: on Newcastle and Gateshead’s Tyne Bridge at 90
On 10 October 1928, tens of thousands of citizens of Newcastle and Gateshead lined the streets as King George V…
ByBridging the divide: landscapes and lawmakers in Ronda, home of Spanish romanticism
Perched on a mesa in the middle of a wide Andalusian plateau, Ronda is a sleepy Spanish town much like…
ByHow do forensic engineers investigate bridge collapses, like the one in Miami?
On 15 March, a 950-ton partially assembled pedestrian bridge at Florida International University in Miami suddenly collapsed onto the busy…
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