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December 20, 2015
Constructing the World’s Biggest (Disassemblable) City
An entire city was built for the occasion in just eight weeks, a nagri (temporary city) springs up on the riverbanks, on an otherwise uninhabited floodplain that was under water only a month before the start of construction. On the most important days of the 2013 festival, attendance reached an estimated 30 million people (or roughly the combined populations of Belgium and the Netherlands), so this temporary city had to provide not only lodging and provisions, but an entire infrastructure complete with roads, bridges, sanitation, power grid, hospitals, seven train stations and a police force of over 12,000. In the three weeks after the festival ended, the entire city was disassembled and the plain returned to the rivers, which would flood it again a month later. by Rahul Mehrotra (Works That Work magazine)
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That was a perfect "city" to place in the cross hairs of a big bang event.
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at December 20, 2015 9:20 AM
If they can do that, why can't they stop the drowning of thousands in floods in that part of the world, just about every year it seems?
Posted by: BillH at December 20, 2015 9:48 AM
That's not FUN! BillH.
Posted by: ghostsniper at December 20, 2015 12:00 PM
So. let's hire these folks, along with the Saudis' Hajj City, to house all those "Syrian" "refugees."
Posted by: DonRodrigo at December 21, 2015 11:08 AM