Asphalt And Politics

Author : Thomas L. Karnes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0786442824

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Asphalt and Politics by Thomas L. Karnes Pdf

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 : Thomas L. Karnes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786454679

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Asphalt and Politics by Thomas L. Karnes Pdf

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 : Kenneth O'Reilly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781496226365

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Asphalt by Kenneth O'Reilly Pdf

La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada--immense deposits of natural asphalt destined for upgrading to synthetic crude oil. If the harvesting of this natural asphalt continues unabated, we might find ourselves stuck in a muck of a different kind. Humanity has used asphalt for thousands of years. This humble hydrocarbon may have glued the first arrowhead to the first shaft, but the changes wrought by this material are most dramatic since its emergence as pavement. Since the 1920s the automobile and blacktop have allowed unprecedented numbers of Americans to experience the beauty of their continent from the Adirondacks to the Rockies and beyond, to Big Sur and the Pacific Coast Highway. Blacktop roads, runways, and parking lots constitute the central arteries of our environment, creating a distinct "political territory" and a "political economy of velocity." In Asphalt: A History Kenneth O'Reilly provides a history of this everyday substance. By tracing the history of asphalt--in both its natural and processed forms--from ancient times to the present, O'Reilly sets out to identify its importance within various contexts of human society and culture. Although O'Reilly argues that asphalt creates our environment, he believes it also eventually threatens it. Looking at its role in economics, politics, and global warming, O'Reilly explores asphalt's contribution to the history, and future, of America and the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435051460988

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher : Crown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780307819970

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Asphalt Nation by Jane Holtz Kay Pdf

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 : Wawan Sobari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819946228

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Emerging Local Politics in Indonesia by Wawan Sobari Pdf

This book provides a richer understanding of democratic local politics in Indonesia after the implementation of local direct elections in 2005. Co-published with the University of Airlangga Press, it confronts the question as to why incumbent political leaders succeed and fail in their bid for re-election. By focusing on urban and rural districts in East Java, one of the most populated regions in Indonesia, the work unpacks the general trends of local Indonesian politics, drawing from an empirically sound and theoretically well-grounded case study. The author demonstrates that good policy performance does not guarantee the political survival of the incumbent, and reversibly, bad policy performance does not necessarily mean losing political power. It considers the core political strategies of populism, rivalry, and tangibility and cautions that—rather than helping liberal democracy to grow—these strategies support patronage-driven democracy. Within this system, a small number of vital protectors and defenders control patronage, and, problematically, exert influential control over the country’s electoral processes. Relevant to scholars and students in Indonesian studies, and within political science and Asian studies more broadly, this book follows a gripping and nuanced narrative that explains the relationship between policy choices, informal politics, voting behavior, and political survival in Indonesia.

Author : Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786611222

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The Politics of Memory by Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos Pdf

Who decides which stories about a city are remembered? How do interpretations of the past shape a city’s present and future? In this book, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos discusses notions of power and national identity by examining how nation-states negotiate the preservation of urban spaces and how a city interprets, resists, and consents to the functions and meanings that it has inherited and that it reinvents for itself. Looking at the Brazilian city of Ouro Preto, de Souza Santos applies fine-grained ethnography and historical analysis to discuss the limits of Brazil’s imagery of social harmony and participatory democracy amid continuous inequality.

Author : Ricardo Kaufer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031189654

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Forest Politics from Below by Ricardo Kaufer Pdf

This book presents an analysis of forest politics that employs a broader scope to include non-institutionalized actors. It offers a comparative perspective on various environmental social movements fighting to protect forests around the globe, including indigenous communities in the Amazon and eco-anarchists in Europe. By examining the political goals, motives, and tactics of these sometimes-radical environmentalists, it helps readers understand the commonalities and differences among these “grass-roots forest politicians.” In addition, the book highlights the importance of forest-related struggles for a just transition to a carbon-neutral future. Accordingly, it will appeal to scholars of political science, public policy, and political sociology, as well as anyone interested in social movements and forest conservation.

Author : Daniel Schultz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781546260882

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The Political Lives of James K. Mcguire by Daniel Schultz Pdf

James K. McGuire is often overlooked as a key figure of Irish nationalist politics, yet the issue defined his life for over three decades. As the title implies, he had multiple careers, each overlapping the others.

Author : Peter F. Burns
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482261

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Electoral Politics Is Not Enough by Peter F. Burns Pdf

Examines how and why government leaders understand and respond to African Americans and Latinos in northeastern cities with strong political traditions.

Author : Martin T. Olliff
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817319557

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Getting Out of the Mud by Martin T. Olliff Pdf

When roads were bad -- Alabamians become wide-awake to good roads -- State highways take the lead -- Peering beyond the state's boundaries: named trails and interstate highways -- Laying the foundation for a modern highway system -- Alabama administers its highway program

Author : H. R. Pasindu,Saman Bandara,W. K. Mampearachchi,T. F. Fwa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 917 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030873790

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Road and Airfield Pavement Technology by H. R. Pasindu,Saman Bandara,W. K. Mampearachchi,T. F. Fwa Pdf

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of pavement technology, presented at the 12th International Conference in Road and Airfield Pavement Technology (ICPT), hosted by the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and held on July 14-16, 2021. It covers topics such as pavement design, evaluation and construction, pavement materials characterization, sustainability in pavement engineering, pavement maintenance and rehabilitation techniques, pavement management systems and financing, transportation safety, law and enforcement related to pavement engineering, pavement drainage and erosion control, GIS applications, quarry material assessment, pavement instrumentation, IT and AI applications in pavement. Featuring peer-reviewed contributions by leading international researchers and engineers, the book is a timely and highly relevant resource for materials scientists and engineers interested in pavement engineering.

Author : Michael R. Fein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556030747141

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Paving the Way by Michael R. Fein Pdf

Tells the surprising story of how road construction helped to pave the way to the modern American state. Shows how the growing transportation needs of a steadily industrializing population changed political order from local to state and ultimately to federal governance.

Author : Corinne McLaughlin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307416322

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Spiritual Politics by Corinne McLaughlin Pdf

Do you need a source of hope for the future? Do you wonder about the hidden, metaphysical causes of crises today? Is there a link between human thought, collective karma and world events such as natural disasters? This groundbreaking book will reveal many of these secrets, including the invisible government, the divine guidance behind America's founding and the soul of each nation. It will give you spiritual tools to create a better world. You’ll find many practical examples of a new evolutionary politics today and innovative public policies –even in Washington D.C.! “A fascinating and involving study of the cosmic, karmic and etheric dimensions of politics, world affairs and current events… Information-intensive and chock full of empowering suggestions, intriguing stories and uplifting examples of how individuals and groups can make an impact, this thought-provoking assemblage is an enriching, mind-opening book for seekers of spiritual wisdom and political solutions.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Gary Gibson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781411623705

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Waveform Politics by Gary Gibson Pdf

"Waveform Politics Volume Four; Equilibrium Pattern begins in the aftermath of the Coalition of the Willing?s 2003 war in Iraq continuing to the apocalyptic tsunami of Dec 26, 2004. These essays regard U.S. and world issues from Gary Gibson's point of view as an interested U.S. citizen with a descriptive and prescriptive character. The Waveform Politics series examined social philosophical questions of the relation of an ordinary American citizen to politics: Is it really possible to understand or positively affect complex and interrelated national and international political subjects in real time? The essays were written in a contentious on-line environment and treat a vast survey of public affairs, philosophical, religious and social issues. This author's book was published a few days before the tsunami, which occurred on his birthday. The largest X-Ray stellar event to reach the earth also reached the earth about the 26th of Dec 2004, perhaps accompanied by a gravity wave from the center of the explosive event occurring approximately 50,000 years ago to journey toward the Earth at the speed of light and perhaps eventually help to trigger a tectonic shift causing the giant wave. 697 pages"