Cities and Geology
Author | : Robert Ferguson Legget |
Publisher | : New York ; Montreal : McGraw-Hill Book Company |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Ferguson Legget |
Publisher | : New York ; Montreal : McGraw-Hill Book Company |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David B. Williams |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-08-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0295746475 |
Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar. Williams also weaves in the cultural history of stone, explaining why a white fossil-rich limestone from Indiana became the only building stone used in all fifty states; how in 1825, the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument led to America’s first commercial railroad; and why when the same kind of marble used by Michelangelo clad a Chicago skyscraper it warped so much after nineteen years that all 44,000 panels of it had to be replaced. This love letter to building stone brings to life the geology you can see in the structures of every city.
Author | : Anthony Webster |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2022-03-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1498597963 |
The Foundation of Australia’s Capital Cities is the story of how the places chosen for Australia’s seven colonial capitals came to shape their unique urban character and built environments. Tony Webster traces the effects of each city’s geologically diverse coastal or riverine landform and the local natural materials that were available for construction, highlighting how the geology and original landforms resulted in development patterns that have persisted today.
Author | : David Leveson |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Using case studies of world cities, examines geology and land-use planning, the influence of the earth upon the origin and evolution of cities, and possible relationships between the earth of cities of the future.
Author | : Robert Ferguson Legget |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Engineering geology |
ISBN | : 081374105X |
The nine papers in this volume cover the geology beneath Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Edmonton, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York City, Toronto, and St. Paul/Minneapolis, and present methods of data gathering that could be used in most cities.
Author | : G. McCall |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1996-07-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789054106470 |
This volume looks at the increasing demand for geoscientific input to planning urban land use, rectifying problems of decay and poor prior procedures, rehabilitating land after the closure of extractive and other industries, designing new constructions, and environmental assessment.
Author | : Christopher J. Schuberth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin M. Kaufman |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1439852820 |
With the continuing increase in population, more people are sharing the finite resources of the urban watershed, resulting in new and increasingly complex interactions between humans and the environment. Environmental contamination is a chronic problem-and an expensive one. In urban areas, water and soil contamination poses a threat to public healt
Author | : Giorgio Lollino |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1304 |
Release | : 2014-08-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319090488 |
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also open new ventures for underground city development. Engineering geology plays a major role in facing the increasing issues of the urban environment, such as: finding aggregates for construction works; providing adequate water supply and waste management; solving building problems associated to geological and geomorphological conditions; evaluating host rock conditions for underground constructions; preventing or mitigating geological and seismic hazards. Furthermore, this book illustrates recent advancements in sustainable land use planning, which includes conservation, protection, reclamation and landscape impact of open pit mining and alternative power generation. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: environment, processes, issues and approaches. The congress topics and subject areas of the 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes are: 1. Climate Change and Engineering Geology 2. Landslide Processes River Basins 3. Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources 4. Marine and Coastal Processes Urban Geology 5. Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation 6. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects 7. Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology 8. Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Author | : Dora P. Crouch |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0195083245 |
Traditionally our understanding of ancient cities has been approached through archaeological, historical and literary sources, with little regard or understanding of geology or engineering.