Self Realization Publications: Architecture & Urban Studies: Extreme Engineering: Boston's Big Dig, When engineers proposed that Boston, a city with centuries of tangled infrastructure, build underground highways to end its traffic woes, the plan was deemed impossible. Critics were almost right. This fascinating documentary chronicles the largest civil engineering project in modern history, the re-routing of I-93 and I-90 underground. News footage, interviews, computer graphics, and time-lapse photography capture the political, environmental, and physical challenges of a construction scheme bigger than the Panama Canal. Discussing the nearly completed project are former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Fred Salvucci, project director Mike Lewis, engineering manager Lou Silano, former governor Michael Dukakis, and Dan McNichol, author of The Big Dig. A Discovery Channel Production. (50 minutes, color)

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Extreme Engineering: Boston's Big Dig

When engineers proposed that Boston, a city with centuries of tangled infrastructure, build underground highways to end its traffic woes, the plan was deemed impossible. Critics were almost right. This fascinating documentary chronicles the largest civil engineering project in modern history, the re-routing of I-93 and I-90 underground. News footage, interviews, computer graphics, and time-lapse photography capture the political, environmental, and physical challenges of a construction scheme bigger than the Panama Canal. Discussing the nearly completed project are former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Fred Salvucci, project director Mike Lewis, engineering manager Lou Silano, former governor Michael Dukakis, and Dan McNichol, author of The Big Dig. A Discovery Channel Production. (50 minutes, color)

Year: 2003
Closed Captioned: No

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