Word: megaproject
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Danish urban planner Bent Flyvbjerg has a love-hate relationship with the Sydney Opera House. “It’s my favorite building,” he said. “But at the same time, I hate the project. The Sydney Opera House is a megaproject disaster.” Flyvbjerg, a professor at Aalborg University, discussed the budget overruns that are common to large infrastructure projects, or megaprojects, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design last night. According to Flyvbjerg, nine out of every 10 infrastructure projects have these fiscal problems...
...theory, the network would allow engineers, with the help of gravity, to divert water from wet areas to dry as easily as power companies manage the electrical grid. Environmentalists are aghast. In addition to the phenomenal engineering and maintenance costs, as well as the corruption that such a megaproject might attract, they say the plan-which essentially throws more clogging dams and embankments at the problem-is simply bad science...
...made island in the shape of?no joking?a giant palm tree. Another ambitious resort named the World is being constructed on another man-made island in the form of?naturally?a map of the world. Recently Sheik Mohammed announced plans for Dubailand, a $4.9 billion megaproject that will include the Mall of Arabia, and theme parks called Adventure World, Sports World and Eco-tourism World...
...made island in the shape of--no joking--a giant palm tree. Another ambitious resort named the World is being constructed on another man-made island in the form of--naturally--a map of the world. Recently Sheik Mohammed announced plans for Dubailand, a $4.9 billion megaproject that will include the Mall of Arabia, and theme parks called Adventure World, Sports World and Eco-tourism World...
Even so, the dreams of an H2O bonanza can be maddeningly elusive. During the past half-century, there have been at least nine proposals for large-scale water diversions from Canada and Alaska, including a $100 billion megaproject to pipe water from James Bay in northern Quebec to the Western U.S. and a bizarre scheme for tugboats to tow icebergs to Mexico. Just three months ago, a Greek company, Aquarius Water Transportation, was in Houston trying to interest clients in pumping North American water into rafts the size of football fields and towing them to parched locales around the world...