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New Jersey is sandwiched between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers, with the Raritan, Passaic, and Navesink cutting swaths across it. In spite of the state's relatively small size, over six thousand bridges span its varied landscape. They traverse rivers, streams, railroads, and roadways. Several dozen bridges cut across the Delaware River alone, carrying pedestrian, vehicular, and railroad traffic. Three connect the state to Staten Island. Some are steeped in history, dating back to the colonial era and the Revolutionary war. Others are recognized worldwide for their size or significance in the annals of engineering. In The Bridges of New Jersey, Steven M. Richman provides a rare photographic and poetic journey across sixty of the state's bridges, ranging from impressive suspension spans such as the Ben Franklin and George Washington Bridges, to the small wrought iron and stone bridges that are cherished by local citizens. The book provides a rich diversity of stories that place the bridges in the context of New Jersey history and culture. Richman also explores the contribution New Jersey bridges have made to engineering-some of the most prominent engineers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries either lived or established businesses in the Garden State or designed its bridges. Lavishly illustrated with over seventy photographs, this book is much more than a documentary survey. It is a visual portrait that beautifully captures the metaphoric significance and aesthetic pleasures of New Jersey's bridges, and indeed all bridges. Perhaps more than any other structure built by humans, bridges typify progress and they give us a sense of connectedness. The Bridges of New Jersey provides a compelling visual demonstration of these symbolic functions, as well as their practical purposes and engineering accomplishments.

Bridges --- Bridges, Highway --- Express highways --- Highway bridges --- Transportation --- Viaducts --- History --- History. --- E-books

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Die sowjetische Blockade Berlins gehört zu den großen Wendepunkten in der Geschichte des Kalten Krieges. Das Hauptaugenmerk der internationalen Forschung gilt dabei bis heute den beiden Supermächten. Großbritannien wird je nach Blickwinkel eine Rolle zwischen Defätismus und Komplizenschaft der westlichen Hegemonialmacht beigemessen.Auf einer breiten Quellengrundlage untersucht Victor Mauer erstmals systematisch die britische Krisenpolitik. Dabei fragt er nach den Akteuren, ihren Handlungsspielräumen und Handlungszwängen, beleuchtet widerstreitende Motive und Interessen, analysiert Verhandlungsstrategien und taktisches Kalkül, arbeitet institutionalisierte und informelle Entscheidungsprozesse heraus, widmet sich der Rolle von Öffentlichkeit und Medien, identifiziert wirkmächtige historische Narrative als Mobilisierungsressource, die dem öffentlichen Bedürfnis nach Komplexitätsreduktion in Krisenzeiten entsprach, und betont die Gleichzeitigkeit der Gegensätze.Die Studie revidiert nicht nur unser Bild von der britischen und damit zugleich von der westlichen Politik während der Blockade Berlins. Sie führt auch zu einer Neubewertung der britischen Deutschlandpolitik, ohne die die Krisenpolitik nicht zu verstehen ist. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet blockade, a well-sourced study of British crisis policy is being published for the first time, and it yields surprising new insights. Victor Mauer's work revises our notions of British (and thus Western) policy during the Berlin blockade. It also suggests the need to re-evaluate the history of Britain's German policy, without which we cannot understand the crisis policy.

Bridges --- Bridges, Highway --- Express highways --- Highway bridges --- Transportation --- Viaducts --- Cold War. --- crisis management. --- foreign policy.

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Whether you are a student considering a career in civil engineering and transportation planning, a public official interested in the future of infrastructure, or a person who simply cares about bridges, this book offers an accessible and illustrated introduction to the most beloved feature of our built environment. Learn about engineering basics: the forces that bridges must resist to stay aloft and the principles by which engineers decide which types of bridges make sense at which sites. Find out how engineers protect bridges from their greatest threats—the earthquakes, floods, and other hazards that can cause catastrophic damage.Moving from engineering to planning, learn how we decide whether a bridge is worth building in the first place, learn about controversial features of cost-benefit analysis, and about the transportation models by which planners forecast bridge effects on traffic patterns. Investigate a sometimes intractable problem: why a project often creeps along for a decade or more to get from initial studies to the day the ribbon is cut, undergoing vast cost escalations. Also explore the environmental impact of bridges, and the meaning of a "sustainable bridge," and whether bridges could once again be built, like ancient Roman ones, to last a thousand years.

Bridges --- Bridges, Highway --- Express highways --- Highway bridges --- Transportation --- Viaducts --- Bridge construction --- Design and construction. --- Planning. --- Construction --- Design

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The safety, maintenance and repair of bridges and buildings depend on effective inspection and monitoring techniques. These methods need to be able to identify problems often hidden within structures before they become serious. This important collection reviews key techniques and their applications to bridges, buildings and other civil structures. The first group of chapters reviews ways of testing corrosion in concrete components. Given their continuing importance and vulnerability to decay, the next series of chapters describes ways of testing wood components within civil structures. A final

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Girders. --- Bridges --- Bridge construction --- Beams --- Bars (Engineering) --- Structural frames --- Graphic statics --- Design and construction. --- Construction --- Design --- Bridges. --- Bridges, Highway --- Express highways --- Highway bridges --- Transportation --- Viaducts