The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge — How Resilience Was Built
The Brooklyn Bridge appears to be a monument to engineering genius. Look more closely, and it becomes a study in how complex systems survive uncertainty.
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In The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge, David McCullough reconstructs the engineering, politics, danger, personalities, and public expectations surrounding one of the defining infrastructure projects of the nineteenth century.
This Deep Dive examines the bridge as a socio-technical system rather than simply a structure. John…
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