Can you show me anywhere in the industrialised world where development took place without the construction of roads?
Despite the flurry of modern construction that has taken place in the bordering neighbourhood of Miraflores, Barranco has maintained its many charms.
The new structure will place construction and the management of services under the new China Railway Corp, while safety and regulation will come under the transport ministry.
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Mr Eglin is acutely alive to the way in which the received view of Bath, as a serene and homogenous Georgian polis, works to hide the fact that for most of Nash's time the place was a construction site, squabbled over by a set of bad-tempered competing interests: builders, architects and the city corporation itself.
Dye told me another story, which took place during the construction of the Straits Course.
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But the companies maintain that over the long term, enrollment will continue to rise, especially at large state schools where much of the construction is taking place.
Metal craftsmen, recruited from the commercial side of the construction trade, fashioned the bolts holding the silvery sheets in place from the same metal.
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Thirty years ago, concrete construction started to take the place of wood.
Construction of the canal took place between 1813 and 1816 to link the Rivers Wey and Arun, and runs through Shalford, Bramley, Cranleigh and Dunsfold in Surrey, and Loxwood, Wisborough Green and Billingshurst in West Sussex.
In the first place, improvements in manufacturing have disguised the lack of basic restructuring in other, less competitive industries such as construction and retail.
Most recently Helmsley got into a dispute with a cemetery, of all places, when she decided that her departed husband's resting place in the Bronx had lost the pleasant vista it once had because of construction.
Moreover, onshore production of floating turbines that are then towed offshore to be anchored in place should prove cheaper than the weather-restricted and costly off-shore construction of sea-bed turbines.
The drop in production appeared in 292 of 366 MSAs, reflecting the slow-down in manufacturing and construction, that took place that year.
Although the area around the stadium will not be open to the public until Spring 2014 because of construction work, the LLDC is keen to make sure sport gets a high-profile place in the stadium.
Perhaps the most rapid change has taken place in North Carolina, where a technology and construction boom has sucked in hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, swelling the Hispanic population by more than 1, 000% since 1990.
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"This is not just any construction site, this is a special place for these guys, " says Murphy of the 1, 000 men and some women who work in the building at any given time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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