Infrastructure Junkies! Exploring Eminent Domain, Right of Way, and Infrastructure Development (formerly The Pendulum Land Podcast) - Infrastructure Marvel: The Brooklyn Bridge!

Infrastructure Marvel: The Brooklyn Bridge!

10/12/21 • 39 min

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Infrastructure Junkies! Exploring Eminent Domain, Right of Way, and Infrastructure Development (formerly The Pendulum Land Podcast)

Check out the wondrous story of the greatest American infrastructure achievement of the 19th Century: the Brooklyn Bridge. Professor Greg Jackson of the wildly popular History That Doesn't Suck podcast joins the Infrastructure Junkies! to bring the story of our nation's greatest infrastructure marvel to life. Listen to how the brilliant John Roebling identified the pressing need to connect Brooklyn with Manhattan in the mid 1800's and then conceived the engineering technique to accomplish this vision. A road supported by string? Not quite, but this marvel still provides safe passage to over 100,000 people every day nearly a century and a half after completion.

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Public Relations for ”Hot” Infrastructure Projects!!

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Do you have a "hot" infrastructure project with heavy media scrutiny? Has the use of eminent domain become controversial...or has the landowner utilized the media or politicians to weaponize its case? Are some impacted property owners a hotter potato than others? Join Infrastructure Junkies' fascinating interview of PR expert Brian Daskam, who guides your hosts through the minefield of controversial projects. And bonus! Get Brian's hot take on 90's music and....coffee? Oh, and a spirited round of "Cross Examination with Dave!"

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Infrastructure Marvel: The Brooklyn Bridge, Part Two

Professor Greg Jackson returns to finish the gripping story of how the Brooklyn Bridge was designed and constructed. This American infrastructure marvel represented the greatest right of way feat of its time and set the standard for bridge engineering going forward.