Bridges: a History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans 9780316473811, 0316473812

Table of contents :
Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword
Introductory Interview with Linda Figg
Bridge Basics
Pont du Gard, Nîmes, France, 18 B.C.
Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome, A.D. 134
Anji Bridge, Zhaoxian, China, late sixth century
Pont d'Avignon, Avignon, France, 1250
Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy, 1345
Stari Most, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1566
Rialto Bridge, Venice, 1591
Garden Bridges
Pont Neuf, Paris, 1606
Khaju Bridge, Isfahan, Iran, c. 1650
Palladian Bridge, Buckinghamshire, England, c. 1755
Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, England, 1779. Menai Suspension Bridge, Anglesey, Wales, 1826London Bridge, Lake Havasu City, Arizona, 1971
Starrucca Viaduct, Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, 1848
Delaware Aqueduct, Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania-Minisink Ford, New York, 1849
Catastrophe
Britannia Bridge, Anglesey, Wales, 1850
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Cornish, New Hampshire-Windsor, Vermont, 1866
Whipple Bowstring Truss Bridge, Albany, New York, 1867
Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, 1874
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn-Manhattan, New York, 1883
Garabit Viaduct, near Saint-Flour, France, 1884
Forth Bridge, Queensferry, Scotland, 1890. Covered BridgesTower Bridge, London, 1894
Hell Gate Bridge, Queens-Bronx, New York, 1917
Bloedel Donovan Bridge, King County, Washington, 1920
Michigan Avenue Bridge, Chicago, 1920
Salginatobel Bridge, near Schiers, Switzerland, 1930
George Washington Bridge, Manhattan, New York-Fort Lee, New Jersey, 1931
Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, 1932
The Bridges of War
Siuslaw River Bridge, Florence, Oregon, 1936
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco-Marin County, California, 1937
Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Tacoma, Washington, 1940
Ludendorff Bridge, Remagen, Germany, 1918. Mackinac Bridge, St. Ignace-Mackinaw City, Michigan, 1957Lake Maracaibo Bridge, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1962
Bridges in the Movies
Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Pinellas County, Florida, 1987
Hitsuishijima and Iwakurojima Bridges, Kojima-Sakaide, Japan, 1988
Lusitania Bridge, Mérida, Spain, 1991
Natchez Trace Parkway Arches, Franklin, Tennessee, 1994
Riverfront Parks, Providence, Rhode Island, 1994-2002
Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1996
Confederation Bridge, Prince Edward Island-New Brunswick, Canada, 1997
Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong, 1997. East Bridge, Great Belt Fixed Link, Fünen-Zealand, Denmark, 1998Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Honshu-Awaji, Japan, 1998
Tatara Bridge, Hiroshima-Ehime, Japan, 1999
Pedestrian Bridges
Bridges to Prosperity
An Interview with Frank O. Gehry
Millennium Bridge, London, 2000
Øresund Bridge, Sweden-Denmark, 2000
Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002
Millau Viaduct, Millau, France, 2004
Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory, Prospect, Maine, 2006
Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Nevada-Arizona, 2010
Aizhai Bridge, Jishou, China, 2012.

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