Author: SALKIELD T (foreword by Sir Charles BRESSEY)
Title: Road Making and Road Using
Description: London, Sir Isaac Pitman (1927) 1948 (third edition, revised reprint) xxiv, 196pp, ii pages of publishers' notices, 17 illustrations. 22x14, glt lettered cloth. Very good. Very interesting survey, covering all aspects of the subject. In this new edition the ballooning scale of road traffic, and the impact on road building, is discussed - but even then the exponential growth to come was drastically underestimated ("very heavy traffic" is defined as 600 vehicles per day). Author was formerly City Engineer, Delhi.

Keywords: CITY PLANNING


See more books from our catalog: CITY PLANNING