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Author : John McNamara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book History in Asphalt written by John McNamara and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth O'Reilly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496222075
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
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 : Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307819973
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Asphalt Nation written by Jane Holtz Kay and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master—public spaces were designed to accommodate the automobile at the expense of the pedestrian, mass transportation was neglected, and the poor, unable to afford cars, saw their access to jobs and amenities worsen. Now even drivers themselves suffer, as cars choke the highways and pollution and congestion have replaced the fresh air of the open road. Today our world revolves around the car—as a nation, we spend eight billion hours a year stuck in traffic. In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our automobile-dependency. Citing successful efforts in places from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, Kay shows us that radical change is not impossible by any means. She demonstrates that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions that can steer us out of the mess. Asphalt Nation is essential reading for everyone interested in the history of our relationship with the car, and in the prospect of returning to a world of human mobility.
Author : Thomas L. Karnes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786442829
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Asphalt and Politics written by Thomas L. Karnes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From animal paths to superhighways, transportation has been the backbone of American expansion and growth. This examination of the interstate highway system in the United States, and the forces that shaped it, includes the introduction of the automobile, the Good Roads Movement, and the Lincoln Highway Association. The book offers an analysis of state and federal road funding, modern road-building options, and the successes and failures of the current highway system. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Vincent M. Mallozzi
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385506767
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Asphalt Gods written by Vincent M. Mallozzi and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real basketball deal–the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous. Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. Richard “Pee Wee” Kirkland. These and dozens of other colorfully nicknamed men are the “Asphalt Gods,” whose astounding exploits in the Rucker Tournament, often against multimillionaire NBA superstars, have made them playground divinity. First established in the 1950s by Holcombe Rucker, a New York City Parks Department employee, the tournament has grown to become a Harlem institution, an annual summer event of major proportions. On that fabled patch of concrete, unknown players have been lighting it up for decades as they express basketball as a freestyle art among their peers and against such pro immortals as Julius Erving and Wilt Chamberlain. X’s and O’s are exchanged for oohs and aahs in one of the great examples of street theater to be found in urban America. Asphalt Gods is a streetwise, supremely entertaining oral history of a tournament that has influenced everything from NBA playing style to hip-hop culture. Now, legends transmitted by word of mouth find a home and the achievements of basketball’s greatest unknowns a permanent place in the game’s record.
Author : John McNamara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History in Asphalt written by John McNamara and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maxwell Lay
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000228460
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
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 : John McNamara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780941980258
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)
Download or read book McNamara's Old Bronx written by John McNamara and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541120
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Black Gods of the Asphalt written by Onaje X. O. Woodbine and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem." Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory into a force that opponents can feel in each bone-snapping drive to the basket. On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer, brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. He shows that big games have a trickster figure and a master of black talk whose commentary interprets the game for audiences. The beats of hip-hop and reggae make up the soundtrack, and the ballplayers are half-men, half-heroes, defying the ghetto's limitations with their flights to the basket. Basketball is popular among young black American men but not because, as many claim, they are "pushed by poverty" or "pulled" by white institutions to play it. Black men choose to participate in basketball because of the transcendent experience of the game. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, Onaje X. O. Woodbine composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes who use the court to mine what urban life cannot corrupt. If people turn to religion to reimagine their place in the world, then black streetball players are indeed the hierophants of the asphalt.
Author : Dan McNichol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914313045
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Paving the Way written by Dan McNichol and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kurt Wenner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781402771262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Asphalt Renaissance written by Kurt Wenner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asphalt Renaissance is a brilliant account of the rebirth and re-imagining of the art of street painting by top artist Kurt Wenner. He revolutionized this tradition by creating a technique for drawing on pavement in 3-D. This system enables him to craft astounding images that reach out of the ground toward the viewer and appear perilously deep. Wenner has traveled the world over and his incredible art is both a global and an Internet phenomenon.
Author : Kurt Boone
Publisher : Kurt Boone Books
ISBN 13 : 1934690295
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Asphalt Warrior written by Kurt Boone and published by Kurt Boone Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York City business districts, billions of dollars are traded everyday and power deals are closed every minute. Within the hundreds of skyscrapers there are dedicated messenger centers that insure and time to the minute the delivery of business documents used to completed deals large and small.Kurt Boone spent over 14 years rushing through out the city in all weather conditions picking upand delivering these documents. In Asphalt Warrior, Kurt Boone tells his story as one of the fastest messengers in thecity and his experiences in the now world famousmessenger culture lifestyles of parties, alleycat racing, riding fixed gear bicycles and carrying messengers bags.
Author : Larry Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781706781141
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Tales Of The Asphalt Trail written by Larry Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Texas Motor Freight, iconically and fondly remembered as ETMF, is a symbol of what many would call the "romance" of the highway, the lure of the open road. So this book is a living history, the recounting of some of the most humorous and entertaining stories ever to come around the bend of a two-lane blacktop! Preserved on these pages is a treasure trove of anecdotes and recollections by the people who lived the trucking life. You will read stories that flow with the character and language of the people who were not only the custodians of the legends surrounding the development of trucking, but who were also an authentic part of the story itself. The people who birthed this freight line were using horses and wagons to haul freight long before gas-powered trucks became a daily reality. ETMF is representative, then, of the whole history of motor freight transportation as it developed on the surface of the land mass known as America.
Author : Sharon Gamson Danks
Publisher : New Village Press
ISBN 13 : 1613320795
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Asphalt to Ecosystems written by Sharon Gamson Danks and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical palette for visualizing, designing, and building innovative green schoolyard environments.
Author : Clay McShane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231083911
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Down the Asphalt Path written by Clay McShane and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McShane examines the uniquely American relation between auto-mobility and urbanization. Deftly combining urban and technological history, McShane focuses on how new transportation systems -- most important, the private automobile -- and new concepts of the city redefined each other in modern America.
Author : Dallas N. Little
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331958443X
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Modeling and Design of Flexible Pavements and Materials written by Dallas N. Little and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook lays out the state of the art for modeling of asphalt concrete as the major structural component of flexible pavements. The text adopts a pedagogy in which a scientific approach, based on materials science and continuum mechanics, predicts the performance of any configuration of flexible roadways subjected to cyclic loadings. The authors incorporate state-of the-art computational mechanics to predict the evolution of material properties, stresses and strains, and roadway deterioration. Designed specifically for both students and practitioners, the book presents fundamentally complex concepts in a clear and concise way that aids the roadway design community to assimilate the tools for designing sustainable roadways using both traditional and innovative technologies.
Author : Ineke Holtwijk
Publisher : Front Street
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Asphalt Angels written by Ineke Holtwijk and published by Front Street. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, thirteen-year-old Alex joins a group of children like him and finds himself adapting to his new life.
