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Queen Elizabeth II officially inaugurated London’s Millennium Footbridge on 9 May 2000. The bridge crosses the River Thames, connecting St Paul’s Cathedral with the Tate Modern art gallery. Aesthetic design requirements called for a particularly low height profile, and the resulting design was the suspension bridge shown in Figure 1.1.
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Hales, C., Gooch, S. (2004). Ways of Thinking about Engineering Design. In: Managing Engineering Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-394-7_2
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