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bmmayer1 ◴[04 Jul 25 22:36 UTC] No.44468501[source]▶

This is incredible -- serious question -- has anything of this scale been done in the US or Europe? Do we even have the technology?

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crooked-v ◴[04 Jul 25 22:45 UTC] No.44468554[source]▶

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Check out the raising of Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago). From buildings up to entire city blocks were raised, moved on rollers, or both, usually while businesses and residents stayed in them for normal day-to-day life.

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1. wenc ◴[05 Jul 25 01:54 UTC] No.44469523[source]▶

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Chicago also reversed the flow of the Chicago River.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River#Reversing_the_fl...

They also rebuilt much of the city because it was wiped out during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and now the grid system is one of the most commonsensical ones in any major American city.

Chicago is an example of a (more or less) clean-slate engineered large city -- one that arose as a result of tragedy (fire) and failure (cholera).

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