

Abandoned Engineering
Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
- First aired
- Feb 18, 2017
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- U&Yesterday
- Episodes
- 145
- Country
- GB
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S1 E1: Silent Cities
S1 E1 Silent Cities
Feb 18, 2017Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions unanswered and mysteries unsolved. We explore the worlds strangest engineering projects that created empty silent cities. We ask why a ruined cold war air base has become a no-go area and how a tiny Japanese mining island become the most over-crowded place on the planet. We find out if the street layout of the Soviet Union's model city become a matter of life or death for its population. And how did Nazi Germany create a huge mind control facility at a holiday resort?
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