1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910598005603321

Titolo

Advanced Asphalt Materials and Paving Technologies / / edited by Zhanping You, Qingli Dai and Feipeng Xiao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 419 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

553.27

Soggetti

Asphalt

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

There has been significant research progress in the area of pavement materials and paving technologies in the past decade. This includes the use of warm mix asphalt technologies, rubber asphalt, bio asphalt, nanomaterial applications, new construction technologies, innovative concrete materials, as well as the application of mechanistic-empirical pavement design. With all these developments, a collection of peer-reviewed articles with the theme of advanced asphalt materials and paving technologies is necessary for industry, researchers, government agencies, and other stakeholders. This collection promotes new technology, low costs, high durability, environmental friendliness, and effective resource usage in the area of advanced asphalt materials and paving technologies.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255067003321

Titolo

Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World : From the Early Modern to Modernism / / edited by Leonard von Morzé

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9781137526069

1137526068

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The New Urban Atlantic

Disciplina

909.09821

Soggetti

European literature

America - Literatures

United States - History

Literature, Modern - 20th century

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Literature - History and criticism

European Literature

North American Literature

US History

Twentieth-Century Literature

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

Literary History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

-- Introduction -- Invisible Cities: Space and the Politics of Comparison in the Portuguese Atlantic World -- Courtly Ceremonies and an Urban Geography of Power in the Spanish Empire -- Explorers, Pirates and Urban Intellectuals: Towards a Cultural History of the Atlantic Frontier -- Figures of the Circulating Self.-‘Blazing Effects’: The Fifth of November, Guy Fawkes, and the Rhetoric of Slave Conspiracy -- Circling the Squares: City-Building in Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography -- Atlantic Thinking in Jane Austen’s Novels -- Imagined Cities and Atlantic Modernism -- Open Doors, Closed Spaces:



The Transatlantic Imaginary in American City Writing from Post-Revolutionary Literature to Modernism -- English-Canadian Actresses and the Multiple Networks of the Urban Atlantic, 1890s–1920s -- A Museum is Born: Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar, 1936.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a much-needed comparative approach to the history of cities by investigating the dissemination of cultural forms between cities of the Atlantic world. The contributors attend to the various forms and norms of cultural representation in Atlantic history, examining a wealth of diverse topics such as the Portuguese Atlantic; the Spanish Empire; Guy Fawkes and the conspiratorial rhetoric of slaves; Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar; and the writings of Jane Austen, Alexis de Tocqueville, Benjamin Franklin, and others. By interpreting Atlantic urban history through sustained attention to customs and representational forms, an international group of nine contributors demonstrate the power of culture in the making of Atlantic urban experience, even as they acknowledge the harsh realities of economic history. .