The underground option – A solution to the quality of big city life

2011 Jul 19

As the world’s cities become increasingly overcrowded, the quality of city life continues to decline. Big city planners are more and more aware that something has to be done. But what? For Gunnar Nord, Atlas Copco’s senior advisor in tunneling, the solution is both obvious and inevitable. Go underground.

By all accounts there will soon be seven billion people living on planet earth and the experts believe this figure is likely to rise to more than 10 billion by the year 2050.

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