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Cities Are Sinking Under The Weight Of Urban Development
A new study quantifies what big buildings are doing to the ground beneath San Francisco and other cities, as sea levels rise.
24 Feb 2021, 10:30 AM IST
(Bloomberg) -- In late 2020, engineers began working on a $100 million project to stop San Francisco’s Millennium Tower from tilting and sinking further into the ground. Tenants of the beleaguered luxury condo had learned four years earlier that the 58-story high-rise had sunk some 16 inches in over a decade. But the tower’s predicament is only part of a larger problem, and not just for the Bay Area: Cities around the world are sinki...
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