Dave Land wrote:
Some cities in the world are investing *MASSIVE* amounts of money and
effort to protect them from various natural disasters. Take, for
instance, Tokyo, which is building the world's largest flood-prevention
system of mind-boggling proportions, of which some too-cool-to-be-real
photos are available here:
http://www.g-cans.jp/intro/07photo/
Wierd that a city that sits on an earthquake fault line uses this sort
of design for flood mitigation. I guess that's a product of how critical
their land use is - the land must be valued so high that any alternative
to canals and surface floodways is more efficient.
Cheers
Russell C.
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