Engineering and Art

Ceilings over Sidewalks

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January 23rd 2010
So Bologna has this great things all over the place. i believe they are called porticos. but they're basically ceilings over the sidewalks. I guess it rains here often, so this was brilliant idea of the engineers of Bologna back in the day. Apparently it was too hard of a concept in the United States...but i feel like Bucknell could seriously benefit from these. Not only are they useful, but a lar ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more