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> built on landfill Silly question, but does this mean "built on reclaimed land" in the US? Where I'm from it would mean "built on top of literal garbage."
by repsilat 10y ago
> built on landfill
Silly question, but does this mean "built on reclaimed land" in the US? Where I'm from it would mean "built on top of literal garbage."
- charliepark 10y agoIn the US, "reclaimed land" and "on top of literal garbage" are essentially the same thing. Discussion of that very thing is in this really interesting episode of 99% Invisible from last week: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/making-up-ground/ http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/making-up-ground/
- jzl 10y agoA lot of the "landfill" in that part of SF is rubble from the 1906 quake, which there was a lot of. They disposed of it by making the city bigger!