Paving Over The Past

Author : Georgie Boge Geraghty
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559631921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paving Over the Past written by Georgie Boge Geraghty and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhaustively researched book, Georgie Boge and Margie Boge analyze the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation of Civil War battlefield sites, and offer a pragmatic development program designed to accommodate the needs of both historic preservation and economic growth. Not only do they provide a framework for developing actual preservation strategies, they show how important historical, cultural, and natural resources can be preserved with economic benefit to the community. After exploring the special importance of battlefield sites to the nation, the Boges discuss existing policies for preservation. Through extensive case studies, they demonstrate the inadequacies of current mechanisms, and present a detailed policy program that could effectively protect the remaining land, and also help save other historically or culturally significant sites.

Author : Maxwell Lay
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000228460
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paving Our Ways written by Maxwell Lay and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. After its empire collapsed, Roman pavements fell into ruin. The slow recovery of pavements in Europe began in France and then in England. The work of Trésaguet, Telford and McAdam is examined. Asphalt and concrete slowly improved as paving materials in the second part of the 19th century. Major advances occurred in the 20th century with the availability of powerful machinery, pneumatic tyres and bitumen. The advances needed to bring pavements to their current development are explored, as are the tools for financing, constructing, managing and maintaining pavements. The book should appeal to those interested in road paving, and in the history of engineering and transport. It can also serve as a text for courses in engineering history.

Author : Ken Skorseth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gravel Roads written by Ken Skorseth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.

Author : James Longhurst
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805994
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bike Battles written by James Longhurst and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road. Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the bicycle through popular songs, merit badge pamphlets, advertising, films, newspapers and sitcoms. Those associations shaped the actions of government and the courts when they intervened in bike policy through lawsuits, traffic control, road building, taxation, rationing, import tariffs, safety education and bike lanes from the 1870s to the 1970s. Today, cycling in American urban centers remains a challenge as city planners, political pundits, and residents continue to argue over bike lanes, bike-share programs, law enforcement, sustainability, and public safety. Combining fascinating new research from a wide range of sources with a true passion for the topic, Longhurst shows us that these battles are nothing new; in fact they’re simply a continuation of the original battle over who is - and isn’t - welcome on our roads. Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNleJ0tDvqg

Author : Kenneth O'Reilly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496222075
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asphalt written by Kenneth O'Reilly and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Asphalt: A History" provides a narrative history of asphalt and its effects from ancient times to the modern day. Although asphalt creates our environment, it also threatens it"--

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airstrip Paving Materials, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Defense Activities (under Authority of H. Res. 125) of ... , 83-2, February 3, 4, 5, and 8, 1954 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1436 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Development and Manufacturers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1956 each vol. includes as a regular number the Blue book of southern progress and the Southern industrial directory, formerly issued separately.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislative-Judiciary Appropriations, 1954, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ... , 83-1 on H.R. 5805 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislative-judiciary Appropriations for 1954 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Roads written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: