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Highways: An Architectural Approach

Author : Lester Abbey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Highways: An Architectural Approach written by Lester Abbey and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-07-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is highway architecture? Who are the highway architects? Where do they practice? What is their role? WHAT IS HIGHWAY ARCHITECTURE? Highway architecture is a way of attempting to achieve the best of both worlds by shepherding a highway project from planning through design, construction, and operation. It is an approach to rebuilding our highway infrastructure, from a humanistic rather than strictly an engineering point of view. Continuity of purpose is the prime objective. A corollary goal is to make the highway an integral part of its setting. As now practiced, the building or rebuilding of anyone highway is partitioned, fragmented, and compartmentalized. Planners hand a concept to designers; design ers then prepare plans and specifications and pass their work on to construction people; construction people build the highway and turn it over to maintenance personnel. Rarely does one find continuity from planning to operation of a facility. WHO ARE THE HIGHWAY ARCHITECTS? Although it is unlikely that anyone hands out a business card with occupation listed as "Highway Architect," this does not mean that no one practices the profession. Highway architects are those people who share the responsibility for developing a highway project. True, the practice is quite limited, but site development entrepre neurs, rural county engineers, landscape architects, and consultants to smaller local governments often perform as highway architects. They take a project from concep tion to completion and are concened with how the local community will react to it.

Highways: An Architectural Approach

Author : Lester Abbey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781468465150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Highways: An Architectural Approach written by Lester Abbey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is highway architecture? Who are the highway architects? Where do they practice? What is their role? WHAT IS HIGHWAY ARCHITECTURE? Highway architecture is a way of attempting to achieve the best of both worlds by shepherding a highway project from planning through design, construction, and operation. It is an approach to rebuilding our highway infrastructure, from a humanistic rather than strictly an engineering point of view. Continuity of purpose is the prime objective. A corollary goal is to make the highway an integral part of its setting. As now practiced, the building or rebuilding of anyone highway is partitioned, fragmented, and compartmentalized. Planners hand a concept to designers; design ers then prepare plans and specifications and pass their work on to construction people; construction people build the highway and turn it over to maintenance personnel. Rarely does one find continuity from planning to operation of a facility. WHO ARE THE HIGHWAY ARCHITECTS? Although it is unlikely that anyone hands out a business card with occupation listed as "Highway Architect," this does not mean that no one practices the profession. Highway architects are those people who share the responsibility for developing a highway project. True, the practice is quite limited, but site development entrepre neurs, rural county engineers, landscape architects, and consultants to smaller local governments often perform as highway architects. They take a project from concep tion to completion and are concened with how the local community will react to it.

Design of Highway Bridges

Author : Richard M. Barker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118330102
Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Design of Highway Bridges written by Richard M. Barker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date coverage of bridge design and analysis revised to reflect the fifth edition of the AASHTO LRFD specifications Design of Highway Bridges, Third Edition offers detailed coverage of engineering basics for the design of short- and medium-span bridges. Revised to conform with the latest fifth edition of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, it is an excellent engineering resource for both professionals and students. This updated edition has been reorganized throughout, spreading the material into twenty shorter, more focused chapters that make information even easier to find and navigate. It also features: Expanded coverage of computer modeling, calibration of service limit states, rigid method system analysis, and concrete shear Information on key bridge types, selection principles, and aesthetic issues Dozens of worked problems that allow techniques to be applied to real-world problems and design specifications A new color insert of bridge photographs, including examples of historical and aesthetic significance New coverage of the "green" aspects of recycled steel Selected references for further study From gaining a quick familiarity with the AASHTO LRFD specifications to seeking broader guidance on highway bridge design Design of Highway Bridges is the one-stop, ready reference that puts information at your fingertips, while also serving as an excellent study guide and reference for the U.S. Professional Engineering Examination.

The Freeway in the City: Principles of Planning and Design

Author : Urban Advisors to the Federal Highway Administrator (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Freeway in the City: Principles of Planning and Design written by Urban Advisors to the Federal Highway Administrator (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Highway Construction

Author : Austin Thomas Byrne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Highway Construction written by Austin Thomas Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guide to Highway Law for Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Contractors

Author : R.A. O'Hara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135828881
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Book Synopsis Guide to Highway Law for Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Contractors by : R.A. O'Hara

Download or read book Guide to Highway Law for Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Contractors written by R.A. O'Hara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. As a consequence of so much construction work being carried out on or near highways, contractors ignore at the peril the law of highways and the influence it has, or should have, on their working methods and practices. Some knowledge of the law relating to highways is essential to anyone involved in the construction process, including the architect, engineer or surveyor advising a client as to what is possible and the contractor actually carrying out the contract works. By avoiding legal language this book aims to provide practical guidance from maintenance and improvements to activities related to construction work on or near highways.

Public Roads

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Public Roads written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pamphlet Architecture 26: Thirteen Projects for the Sheridan Expressway

Author : Jonathan D. Solomon
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568984544
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Book Synopsis Pamphlet Architecture 26: Thirteen Projects for the Sheridan Expressway by : Jonathan D. Solomon

Download or read book Pamphlet Architecture 26: Thirteen Projects for the Sheridan Expressway written by Jonathan D. Solomon and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived as a set of "Flexible Standards," this new addition to the Pamphlet Architecture series proposes a new way of thinking about roadways in cities. By reexamining the urban expressway as a political, physical, and mythic manifestation of American culture, this compelling pamphlet serves as a design manual for planners, a novel atlas for drivers, and a collection of proposals that reaffirm the role of architecture in urban planning. The thirteen projects take as their subject a site of contested transportation infrastructure -- the Sheridan Expressway. By proposing new typologies for this site, these studies seek to mediate the spaces in the city where local and regional meet. Referencing the introduction of the modern parkway into the Bronx, the grading of the Central Park transverse roads, and other works that have redefined the relationship between parks and roads, author Jonathan Solomon suggests a system by which large projects might again be built in American cities.

A Guide for Achieving Flexibility in Highway Design

Author :
Publisher : AASHTO
ISBN 13 : 1560512598
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book A Guide for Achieving Flexibility in Highway Design written by and published by AASHTO. This book was released on 2004 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Context-sensitive solutions (CSS) reflect the need to consider highway projects as more than just transportation facilities. Depending on how highway projects are integrated into the community, they can have far-reaching impacts beyond their traffic or transportation function. CSS is a comprehensive process that brings stakeholders together in a positive, proactive environment to develop projects that not only meet transportation needs, but also improve or enhance the community. Achieving a flexible, context-sensitive design solution requires designers to fully understand the reasons behind the processes, design values, and design procedures that are used. This AASHTO Guide shows highway designers how to think flexibly, how to recognize the many choices and options they have, and how to arrive at the best solution for the particular situation or context. It also strives to emphasize that flexible design does not necessarily entail a fundamentally new design process, but that it can be integrated into the existing transportation culture. This publication represents a major step toward institutionalizing CSS into state transportation departments and other agencies charged with transportation project development.

The Highway and Its Environment

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Highway and Its Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Team Concepts for Urban Highways and Urban Design

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Team Concepts for Urban Highways and Urban Design written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Concrete

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concrete written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flexibility in Highway Design

Author : U. S. Department Transportation
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781480144873
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Flexibility in Highway Design written by U. S. Department Transportation and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide, "Flexibility in Highway Design," is about designing highways that incorporate community values and are safe, efficient, effective mechanisms for the movement of people and goods. It is written for highway engineers and project managers who want to learn more about the flexibility available to them when designing roads and illustrates successful approaches used in other highway projects. It can also be used by citizens who want to gain a better understanding of the highway design process. Congress, in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 and the National Highway System Designation (NHS) Act of 1995, maintained a strong national commitment to safety and mobility. Congress also made a commitment to preserving and protecting the environmental and cultural values affected by transportation facilities. The challenge to the highway design community is to find design solutions, as well as operational options, that result in full consideration of these sometimes conflicting objectives. To help meet that challenge, this Guide has been prepared for the purpose of provoking innovative thinking for fully considering the scenic, historic, aesthetic, and other cultural values, along with the safety and mobility needs, of our highway transportation system.

Highways

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Highways written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geometric Design Practices for European Roads

Author : James O. Brewer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428952330
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Book Synopsis Geometric Design Practices for European Roads by : James O. Brewer

Download or read book Geometric Design Practices for European Roads written by James O. Brewer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Highway Construction

Author : Austin T. Byrne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332314379
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Highway Construction written by Austin T. Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Highway Construction: A Practical Guide to Modern Methods of Roadbuilding and the Development of Better Ways of Communication The science of good road building is an old one as evidenced by the many highways in Europe which have withstood the wear of travel for centuries. Most of these famous roads were cut from solid rock or built of crushed stone of such a character as to be unaffected by weather conditions. Modern road building, however, has been largely influenced within the past fifteen years by the enormous increase in the amount of travel due to the automobile. This has not only been the means of developing new road surface to meet the more severe requirements of this type of vehicle but it has developed a country-wide interest in good roads, thus making it possible for the enthusiastic travelers to take long tours without meeting the formerly ever-present bugaboo of bad roads, besides making the ordinary town-to-town travel more satisfactory. It is with the idea of giving a clear conception of the engineering problems involved in road building, that is, laying out of the road by the best and easiest route, the questions of grade, contour, and drainage, and the construction of culverts and bridges, that this treatise has been written. The author has had long experience in the field of highway construction and has treated the different types of roads in a very complete and practical manner. Natural soil, gravel, broken stone, bituminous macadam and concrete roads are all carefully treated, not only as to material, but as to the best methods of laying them. The city pavements are also given due consideration, accompanied by typical specifications for the new surfaces developed for boulevards. Altogether, the article covers the entire field of road building, both city and country, and should appeal either to the highway engineer or to the untrained reader who has merely a passing interest in the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lofty Visions

Author : Amy D. Finstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Lofty Visions written by Amy D. Finstein and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation establishes a typology of American urban elevated highways from the first half of the twentieth century that united previous conceptions of urban design and transportation with contemporary definitions of modern architecture and automobility. Designed jointly by engineers, urban planners, architects, and municipal leaders, these skyward roads responded to the particular challenges of adapting existing cities to fit changing patterns of urban growth and transportation. Their constructed nature necessarily defined the terms of their impact and reception. Soaring into the air and marching through and across city streets, elevated highways physically affected more people than just those who drove on them. Rather, they stood as physical proclamations of the importance of automobility in the American city. And because of this, their design features and architectural impacts narrated a complex interweaving of early twentieth-century social, architectural, transportation, and urban design challenges. To demonstrate the boundaries of this pattern, this study profiles three elevated highways in distinctly different urban settings with divergent stylistic approaches: Chicago's Wacker Drive (1924-1926), New York's West Side Elevated Highway (1929-1937), and Boston's Central Artery (1951-1959). In tracing the evolution and implementation of each project, the dissertation shows how elevated roadways synthesized previously disparate narratives about economic vitality, civic beautification, transportation efficiency, and architectural modernity. Municipal leaders, planners, engineers, and architects separately turned to elevated highways as physical evidence of their efforts to respond to each of these conditions. The highways sorted traffic, facilitated ever-faster automotive travel, navigated existing urban fabric, and sported varying interpretations of modern architecture. As such, the highways became physical proclamations of the many facets of urban modernity."--P. ii-iii.