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Re:In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Di... by repsilat on Sunday September 25, 2016 @12:21PM (#12575946)
> built on landfill

Silly question, but does this mean "built on reclaimed land" in the US? Where I'm from it would mean "built on top of literal garbage."

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Re:In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Di... by charliepark on Sunday September 25, 2016 @12:31PM (#12575990)
In the US, "reclaimed land" and "on top of literal garbage" are essentially the same thing. Discussion of that very thing is in this really interesting episode of 99% Invisible from last week: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/making-up-ground/
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Re:In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Di... by jzl on Sunday September 25, 2016 @02:14PM (#12576513)
A lot of the "landfill" in that part of SF is rubble from the 1906 quake, which there was a lot of. They disposed of it by making the city bigger!
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