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1. Tokyo's Sky City
  April 13, 2003
In Japan, plans are on the table to build Sky City, the tallest structure on earth. The towering, vertical city will house more than 100,000 people. Sky City would be home to the world's very first homesteaders in the sky.
 
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2. Transatlantic Tunnel
  April 13, 2003
Rail travel may yet go intercontinental. In prototypes of floating tunnels, 5,000-mph magnetically levitated trains travel between New York, London and Paris. Passengers would dine and sleep while whales and nuclear subs glide around them.
 
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3. Subways in America
  April 13, 2003
The world's great cities have always struggled to find a balance between the need to attract more and more people and their ability to transport them efficiently.
 
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4. Bridging the Bering Strait
  April 13, 2003
Already on the drawing boards, The Bridge rejoins North America and Asia.
 
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5. City in a Pyramid
  April 13, 2003
Tokyo is one of the most crowded cities in the world. To relieve the stress on a city bursting at the seams, engineers look to build a massive Pyramid over the water, with skyscrapers suspended like peapods within its enormous frame.
 
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6. Building Hong Kong's Airport
  April 13, 2003
The Hong Kong international airport is the largest civil engineering project in history and the largest enclosed space in the world. It is also 16 miles out to sea and built on a platform that was constructed by leveling two small islands.
 
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7. Widening the Panama Canal
  April 13, 2003
Daily, ships the size of a city block transport goods through the Panama Canal to make the 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Officials have asked a team of European and American engineers to compete for a winning lock design.
 
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8. Tunneling Under the Alps
  April 13, 2003
This Swiss monster is the longest tunnel in the world.
 
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9. Holland's Barriers to the Sea
  April 13, 2003
The Delta Works, a series of massive, computer-controlled sea barriers and dams, straddle each of the major rivers emptying into the delta. The Measlandkering is a gigantic sea surge barrier.
 
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10. Boston's Big Dig
  April 13, 2003
In a series of engineering firsts, two interstate highways are being rebuilt beneath Boston, sending its traffic 120 feet underground! The "Big Dig" will take more than 30 years to build, but not without confronting unprecedented challenges.
 
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Episode 1, "Tokyo's Sky City"
Synopsis: In Japan, plans are on the table to build Sky City, the tallest structure on earth. The towering, vertical city will house more than 100,000 people. Sky City would be home to the world's very first homesteaders in the sky.
Original air date: April 13, 2003
Runtime: 44 minutes
ASIN: B000I8H35O
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,213 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
Extreme Engineering Season 1
Synopsis: Extreme Engineering exposes the challenges of designing and building the largest andmost outrageous and awe-inspiring projects ever conceived. No project is too large or complex. Watch computer animations of amazing structures taking shape, and follow the efforts of engineers and scientists taking on what to most of us would seem impossible.
Network: Discovery Channel
ASIN: B000I8FOZA
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