The city, the river, the bridge
Subtitle: before and after the Minneapolis bridge collapse
By: Patrick Nunnally, editor ; preface by E. Thomas Sullivan
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780816667666; 9780816667673
Subjects: Social conditions; Bridges; Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Minneapolis, Minn., 2007; History
Description: Stemming from a 2008 University of Minnesota symposium on the bridge collapse and the building of a new bridge, these stories address the ramifications of the disaster from the perspectives of history, engineering, architecture, water science, community-based journalism, and geography. Contributors examine the factors that led to the collapse, the lessons learned from the disaster and the response, the policy and planning changes that have occurred or are likely to occur, and the impact on the city and the Mississippi River. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: This dynamic culture of learning / E. Thomas Sullivan; title: Introduction : university voices in the community / Patrick Nunnally; title: The bridge : object, metaphor, process; title: Fracture-critical : the I-35W bridge collapse as metaphor and omen / Thomas fisher; title: The infamous gusset plates / Roberto Ballarini and Minmao liao; title: Building the new bridge : process and politics in city-building / Patrick Nunnally; title: The city : neighborhoods and transportation; title: Neighborhoods confront a disaster aftermath / Judith A. Martin; title: From here to there to nowhere : competing philosophies of planning / Roger Miller; title: The river : after the collapse; title: A fickle partner : Minneapolis and the Mississippi River / John O. Anfinson; title: A bridge to somewhere / Mark Pedelty, Heather Dorsey, and Melissa Thompson; title: Old man river / Deborah L. Swackhamer; title: Conclusion : reimagining the Mississippi / Patrick Nunnally.