Asphalt to Ecosystems

Asphalt to Ecosystems
Title Asphalt to Ecosystems PDF eBook
Author Sharon Gamson Danks
Publisher New Village Press
Pages 288
Release 2010-11
Genre Education
ISBN 1613320795

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A practical palette for visualizing, designing, and building innovative green schoolyard environments.

Asphalt Nation

Asphalt Nation
Title Asphalt Nation PDF eBook
Author Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher Crown
Pages 538
Release 2012-06-20
Genre Transportation
ISBN 0307819973

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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.

Asphalt Materials Science and Technology

Asphalt Materials Science and Technology
Title Asphalt Materials Science and Technology PDF eBook
Author James G. Speight
Publisher Butterworth-Heinemann
Pages 652
Release 2015-10-01
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 0128005017

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Asphalt is a complex but popular civil engineering material. Design engineers must understand these complexities in order to optimize its use. Whether or not it is used to pave a busy highway, waterproof a rooftop or smooth out an airport runway, Asphalt Materials Science and Technology acquaints engineers with the issues and technologies surrounding the proper selection and uses of asphalts. With this book in hand, researchers and engineering will find a valuable guide to the production, use and environmental aspect of asphalt. - Covers the Nomenclature and Terminology for Asphalt including: Performance Graded (PG) Binders, Asphalt Cement (AC), Asphalt-Rubber (A-R) Binder, Asphalt Emulsion and Cutback Asphalt - Includes Material Selection Considerations, Testing, and applications - Biodegradation of Asphalt and environmental aspects of asphalt use

Asphalt

Asphalt
Title Asphalt PDF eBook
Author Kenneth O'Reilly
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 343
Release 2021-07
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1496222075

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"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"--

Water and Asphalt

Water and Asphalt
Title Water and Asphalt PDF eBook
Author Paola Viganò
Publisher Park Publishing (WI)
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre Asphalt
ISBN 9783906027715

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"Water and Asphalt, the latest volume in the UFO series, investigates the metropolitan area of Venice with regard to the increasing separation of residential and industrial neighborhoods. It is based on an extensive research project at Venice's Università IUAV on urban density and sprawl. The densely populated metropolitan region around the world-famous 'Sernenissima', crisscrossed by networks of roads and waterways, provides the ideal test case for imagining the concept termed by this study as the Project of Isotropy. The researchers argue that conditions now exist for redevising the isotropic space in Venice with a focus on the water system, roads and public transportation, alternative mobility, forms of diffused welfare, innovative agriculture, and the decentralized production of energy.--Publisher's website.

The Asphalt Handbook

The Asphalt Handbook
Title The Asphalt Handbook PDF eBook
Author Asphalt Institute
Publisher
Pages 788
Release 2007
Genre Asphalt
ISBN 9781934154274

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For more than 70 years, "MS-4" has served the asphalt industry as its primary reference manual. This new, expanded edition showcases the advances in asphalt technology, covering such topics as superpave courses, asphalt binder, quality control, and rehabilitation of concrete pavements with HMA.

Asphalt Surfacings

Asphalt Surfacings
Title Asphalt Surfacings PDF eBook
Author J Cliff Nicholls
Publisher CRC Press
Pages 425
Release 2002-11-01
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0203477634

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Asphalt Surfacings has been written as a reference to the various asphalt course materials and surfacing treatments that are currently available to engineers, enabling them to select the materials and/or treatment that are appropriate for use on specific sites. Appropriate reference is made to the lower structural layers as the properties of all layers interact in producing the required pavement. The current established position in the UK and the emerging developments throughout the UK and Europe are covered. The contributors are all acknowledged authorities on their particular topics selected from every part of the highway engineering industry to achieve a balance between the various approaches required by the different functions they perform.