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Check out the raising of Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago). From buildings up to entir
by crooked-v 1y ago
Check out the raising of Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
- wenc 1y agoChicago also reversed the flow of the Chicago River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River#Reversing_the_flow 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).
- userbinator 1y agoIn five days the entire assembly was elevated 4 feet 8 inches At a constant rate that's approximately 1.3 tenths (3.3um) per second, definitely far below the threshold for people noticing.