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This chapter deals with an international phenomenon: almost every city attempted to mark the turn of the century with a special event, constructing Millennium parks, towers and bridges to handle them. The attempt to mark important events with symbolic structures is nothing new: in particular, the World’s Fairs beginning in the nineteenth century are among the best examples of this. Footbridges were some of the coveted construction projects of the new millennium.
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(2008). The Call for Symbols. In: Footbridges. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8222-3_15
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