City on Stilts: How Yakutsk Engineers Modern High-Rises Over Shifting Permafrost
Engineering an Urban Metropolis on Frozen Ground Yakutsk is one of the clearest demonstrations of how modern urban life can be built on geotechnical conditions that appear fundamentally hostile to permanent construction. The city, home to roughly 350,000 residents, stands within one of the world”s coldest inhabited regions, on continuous permafrost that extends hundreds of […]








