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WHARVES AND PIERS THEIR DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT BT
CARLETON GREENE, A. B., C. E. MEMBEH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL
ENGINEERS FIRST EDITION SECOND IMPRESSION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY,
INC. 239 WEST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK LONDON HILT, PUBLISHING CO,
LTD. 6 8 BOUVERIE ST, E C 1917 PREFACE THIS book has been written
in response to an editorial in one of the engineering journals
calling attention to the lack of American books on the subject of
Wharves and Piers. In its preparation the author has therefore
endeavored to present a treatise on modern American practice in the
de sign and construction of wharves, piers, pier-sheds and their
equipment, including machinery for handling miscellaneous package
freight. The subject of pile driving has not been gone into deeply
as it has been treated at length in Jacoby and Davis recent work on
Foundations of Bridges and Buildings. It is the writers opinion
that there is a tendency at the present time to slight the
advantages of timber construction for wharves and to overestimate
those of reinforced con crete. As the principles and methods
requisite for dura bility in wooden wharf construction have, as far
as the writer knows, not been set forth in book form they have been
given particular attention in this volume. While most of the
descriptions and illustrations of ex isting structures have
necessarily been collected from the technical press, for which no
originality is claimed, an attempt has been made to emphasize, in
describing such structures, the particular conditions which had to
be pro vided for in the design, the methods used for fulfilling the
special requirements and, to some extent, the reasons why
particular types and details wereadopted. It is believed that such
descriptions will aid designers in solving prob lems which embrace
similar conditions. viii PREFACE For information in regard to
European practice in the construction of wharves and piers the
reader is referred to Seehafenbau by F. W. Schulze Berlin, Ernst
Sohn 1913, and for further information in regard to the New York
practice in freight handling to the Report on the Mechanical
Equipment of New York Harbor by B. F. Cresson, Jr., and Chas. W.
Stamford and to other reports published by the Department of Docks.
In Fowlers Subaqueous Foundations may be found examples of the
wooden piers of the Pacific Coast and in the latest edition of
Merrimans American Civil Engineers Pocket Book there is much
valuable information in condensed form. Acknowledgments arc due to
Mr. Charles W. Staniford, Chief Engineer of the Department of
Docks, New York, N. Y., and to the other officials of that
department for photographs, drawings and information to Mr. S. W.
Hoag, Jr, for permission to reprint portions of his paper on New
York docks, published in the proceedings of The Municipal Engineers
of New York, to Engineering News, Engineer ing Record, Engineering
Contracting and International Marine Engineering, also to the
General Electric Co.. Lidgerwood Mfg. Co., Brown Portable Elevator
Co., J. Edward Ogden Co., American Engineering Co. and others for
illustrations. C G NJW YORK, January, 1917 CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE .
... vn CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION DEFINITIONS i REQUIREMENTS 2 TYPES .
3 MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION 4 Timber 4 Wood Preservatives 9
Concrete 1 1 Concrete Pile 13 Stone Masonry 14 Steel 14 Cast Iron
IQ Riprap 17 Concrete vs Timber 17 CHAPTER II PRIMARY PRINCIPLES
OFDESIGN COMMERCIAL LU-E 19 GROWTH OF SHIPS 22 MARGINAL WHARVES vs
PIERS 23 DIMENSIONS OF WHARVES 24 LIVE LOADS 26 TIDAL PRISM 26
CHAPTER III - DETAILS OF TIMBER CONSTRUCTION PILES AND PILE DRIVING
28 Pile Formulae 28 Steam vs Drop Hammers 29 Lagged Pile 29
Floating Drivers 29 Inclined Drivers 30 Pile Follower 31 LATERAL
SUPPORT FOR PILES 31 TEST PILES AND BORINGS 32 DETAILS OF
CONSTRUCTION 33 IRON AND WOOD FASTENINGS 40 SEWERS IN PIERS 42 x
CONTENTS CHAPTER IV...
From the earliest centuries of Christianity, the cult of saintly relics has been an important feature of the worship of the Church. This book explores the way in which church architecture has been shaped by holy bones - the physical remains or `relics' of those whom the Church venerated as saints. This is the first complete modern study of this aspect of medieval church architecture in western Europe.
The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising
critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This
book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical
architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while
promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's
incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such
as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows
them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are
propounded in neoliberal thought. Analysing architectural projects
in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The
Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by
contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the
compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and
team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form
of existence devoted to market imperatives.
The importance of the leading British architect A. W. N. Pugin (1812-52) in the history of the Gothic Revival, the development of ecclesiology, the origins of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and in architectural theory is incontestable. His letters are vigorous, direct, often witty, and invaluable for architectural and religio-historical research. The second of five volumes.
Social and ecological guidelines for designing and maintaining
small parks
Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and
Ecological Concerns draws on a wide range of knowledge to provide a
one-stop reference to building better parks.
Integrating design criteria with current social and natural
science research, Designing Small Parks presents landscape
architects, park designers, park departments, planners, scientists,
and civic groups with a broad palette of design options. Beginning
with an overview of key issues and terms, this accessible manual is
arranged around twelve topics that represent key questions,
contradictions, and tensions in the design of small parks.
Designing Small Parks features: Concise guidelines providing
immediate access to critical information Fundamental material on
size, edges, appearance, and naturalness Ecological and human
environment coverage of water, plants, wildlife, and air and
climate Succinct summaries of issues surrounding clients and other
involved parties Over 100 drawings and photographs illustrating
design details Up-to-date scientific research Five conceptual
design examples that offer hands-on applications of covered
material
The sequel to the acclaimed Made in Niugini, which explored in
unparalleled depth the material world of the Wola comprising
moveable artefacts, Built in Niugini continues Paul Sillitoe's
project in exemplary fashion, documenting the built environment,
architecture and construction techniques in a tour de force of
ethnography. But this is more than a book about building houses.
Sillitoe also shows how material constructions can serve to further
our understandings of intellectual constructions. Allowing his
ethnography to take the lead, and paying close attention to the
role of tacit understandings and know-how in both skilled work and
everyday dwelling, his close experiential analyses inform a
phenomenologically inflected discussion of profound philosophical
questions - such as what can we know of being-in-the-world - from
startlingly different cultural directions. The book also forms part
of a long-term project to understand a radically different
'economy', which is set in an acephalous order that extends
individual freedom and equality in a manner difficult to imagine
from the perspective of a nation-state - an intriguing way of
being-in-the-world that is entwined with tacit aspects of knowing
via personal and emotional experience. This brings us back to the
explanatory power of a focus on technology, which Sillitoe argues
for in the context of 'materiality' approaches that feature
prominently in current debates about the sociology of knowledge.
Archaeology has long been to the fore in considering technology and
buildings, along with vernacular architecture, and Sillitoe
contributes to a much-needed dialogue between anthropology and
these disciplines, assessing the potential and obstacles for a
fruitful rapprochement. Built in Niugini represents the culmination
of Sillitoe's luminous scholarship as an anthropologist who
dialogues fluidly with the literature and ideas of numerous
disciplines. The arguments throughout engage with key concepts and
theories from anthropology, archaeology, architecture, material
culture studies, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy.
The result is a significant work that contributes to not only our
regional knowledge of the New Guinea Highlands but also to studies
of tacit knowledge and the anthropology of architecture and
building practices. Trevor Marchand, Emeritus Professor of Social
Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies
VITRUVIUS ON ARCHITECTURE EDITED FROM THE HARLEIAN MANUSCRIPT 2767
AI TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY FRANK GRANGER, D. Lrr., AJLLB. A.
PROFESSOR IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NOTTINGHAM IN TWO VOLUMES I
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON WILLIAM
HEINEMANN LTD MCMLV CONTENTS PAQK PREFACE vii INTRODUCTION
VITRUVIUS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST ...... ix HISTORY OF THE
MSS. OF VITRUVIUS . X i THE EARLIEST EDITIONS OF VITRUVIUS . XXi
THE SCHOLIA OF THE MSS. . . . XXV - THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MSS. .
. XXVli THE LANGUAGE OF VITRUVIUS . . . XXViii BIBLIOGRAPHY THE
MSS. . . . . . . XXXli EDITIONS ...... xxxiii TRANSLATIONS XXXiii
THE CHIEF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF VITRUVIUS ..... xxxiv BOOKS
OF GENERAL REFERENCE . . XXXVi TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION BOOK I.
ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES . 1 BOOK II. EVOLUTION OF BUILDING USE OF
MATERIALS . . . . 71 BOOK III. IONIC TEMPLES . . . 151 BOOK IV.
DORIC AND CORINTHIAN TEMPLES 199 BOOK V. PUBLIC BUILDINGS I
THEATRES AND MUSIC, BATHS, HARBOURS . 249 INDEX OF ARCHITECTURAL
TERMS 319 CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS THE CAPITOL DOUGGA . Frontispiece
PLATE A. WINDS AND DIRECTION OF STREETS at end PLATE B. PLANS OF
TEMPLES . . . PLATE C. IONIC ORDER . . . . PLATE 0. CORINTHIAN
ORDER see Frontispiece PLATE E. DORIC ORDER . . . at end PLATE F.
MUSICAL SCALES ., ., PLATE O. THEATRE . . . . . PLATE H. PLAN OF
STABIAN BATHS, POMPEII . vi PREFACE THIS edition has been based
upon the oldest MS. of Vitruvius, the Harleian 2767 of the British
Museum, probably of the eighth century, and from the Saxon
scriptorium of Northumbria in which the Codex Amiatinus was
written. The Latin closely resembles that of the workshop and the
street. In my translation I havesought to retain the vividness and
accuracy of the original, and have not sought a smoothness of
rendering which would become a more polished style. The reader, it
is possible, may discern the genial figure of Vitruvius through his
utterances. In a technical treatise the risks of the translator are
many. The help of Dr. House has rendered them less formidable, but
he is not responsible for the errors which have survived revision.
The introduction has been limited to such con siderations as may
enable the layman to enter into the mysteries of the craft, and the
general reader to follow the stages by which the successive
accretions to the text have been removed. The section upon language
indicates some of the relations of Vitruvius to Old Latin
generally. My examination of fourteen MSS. has been rendered
possible by the courtesy of the Directors of the MSS. Libraries at
the British Museum, the Vatican, the Escorial, the Bibliotheque
Nationale vii PREFACE at Paris, the Bodleian, St. Johns College,
Oxford, and Eton College. A word of special thanks is due to his
Excellency the Spanish Ambassador to London, his Eminence the
Cardinal Merry del Val and the Secretary of the British Embassy at
Paris, for their assistance. Mr. Paul Gray, M. A., of this College,
has given me valuable help in preparing the MS. for the press.
FRANK GRANGER. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NOTTINGHAM, September, 1929.
viii INTRODUCTION VlTRUVIUS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OP THE WEST THE
history of architectural literature is taken by Vitruvius to begin
with the theatre of Dionysus at Athens. 1 In earlier times the
spectators were accommodated upon wooden benches. According to one
account, 2 in the year 500 B. C. or thereabouts, thescaffolding
collapsed, and in consequence a beginning was made towards a
permanent stone structure. The elaborate stage settings of
Aeschylus reached their culmination at the performance of the
Agamemnon and its associated plays in 458. According to Suidas, 3
the collapse of the scaffolding, which occurred at a performance of
one of Aeschylus dramas, led to the exile of the poet in Sicily,
where he died in 456. In that case the permanent con struction of
the theatre would begin in the Periclean age some time between 458
and 456...
We typically take public space for granted, as if it has
continuously been there, yet public space has always been the
expression of the will of some agency (person or institution) who
names the space, gives it purpose, and monitors its existence. And
often its use has been contested. These new essays, written for
this volume, approach public space through several key questions:
Who has the right to define public space? How do such places
generate and sustain symbolic meaning? Is public space unchanging,
or is it subject to our subjective perception? Do we, given the
public nature of public space, have the right to subvert it? These
eighteen essays, including several case studies, offer convincing
evidence of a spatial turn in American studies. They argue for a
re-visioning of American culture as a history of place-making and
the instantiation of meaning in structures, boundaries, and spatial
configurations. Chronologically the subjects range from Pierre
L'Enfant's initial majestic conceptualization of Washington, D.C.
to the post-modern realization that public space in the U.S. is
increasingly a matter of waste. Topics range from parks to cities
to small towns, from open-air museums to airports, encompassing the
commercial marketing of place as well as the subversion and
re-possession of public space by the disenfranchised. Ultimately,
public space is variously imagined as the site of social and
political contestation and of aesthetic change.
This study explores the multiple ways in which Congressional
Cemetery has been positioned for some two hundred years in "the
shadow" of the U.S. Capitol. The narrative proceeds
chronologically, discussing the burial ground during three periods:
a) The antebellum years; b) The years from the end of the Civil War
to approximately 1970, when the site progressively deteriorated; c)
The period from the early 1970s to 2007, when both public and
private organizations worked to preserve the physical site and the
memory of what it has been and continues to represent. This
monograph on Congressional Cemetery focuses on the dominant
narrative associated with the site: its legacy as the first
national burial ground in the United States. Given this emphasis,
the text presents a political and cultural analysis of the
cemetery, with particular focus on the participation of the U.S.
Congress. "This book makes historians and many others aware of a
fascinating and complicated history. Moreover, it not only details
the long history of the cemetery, but it uses it to explore the
nature of historic memorials generally in the creation of national
memory." Steven Diner, Chancellor of Rutgers University at Newark.
"The Johnsons have done an excellent job of mining a wide range of
sources and conveying the complex history of an institution that
merits documentation... It's stunning to realize what a who's who
exists in that space." Howard Gillette, Professor Emeritus at
Rutgers University at Camden. "The history of Congressional
Cemetery is intimately tied up in the changing demographics of its
locale, and its corresponding decline as the neighborhood around
Christ Church changed led to its emergence as a cause celebre for
historic preservationists." Donald Kennon, Chief Historian for the
United States Capitol Historical Society, and editor of The Capitol
Dome.
Calvert Vaux (1824--1895) designed Central Park and other parks in American cities with Frederick Law Olmsted. Trained in England as an architect, Vaux also planned buildings that mirrored the advance of urbanization in America. Museums, exhibition halls, model tenements, and dwellings, as well as many structures in Central Park, were among his designs. This book is an in-depth study of Vaux's life and work.
Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and
London; desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains; metro
stations in China that terminate in a wasteland; Abandoned Train
Stations looks at some of the thousands of disused station
buildings, platforms, lines, tunnels, and rail yards left behind by
modernity. Organised by continent, this book takes the reader to
every corner of the globe. Explore Canfranc International Railway
Station, once a busy mountain hub of international travel between
France and Spain; see the eerily empty platform at Kings Cross
Thameslink, London, today a service tunnel following the station's
closure in the early 2000s; examine the grandiose Michigan Central
Train Station in Detroit, an historic Amtrak rail depot, and once
the tallest rail station in the world; marvel at the dusty,
overgrown shell of Abkhazia's once beautiful railway station in
Psyrtskha, a physical legacy of the former Soviet era in the
Caucasus; see the disused Tiwanaku train station, situated almost
4,000 metres above sea level in the Bolivian Andes; or learn about
the fascinating Istvantelek Train Yard, in the Hungarian capital of
Budapest, better known as the 'Red Star train graveyard' because of
its many Soviet-era engine wrecks. Illustrated with more than 200
photographs, Abandoned Train Stations provides a fascinating
pictorial journey through the little-known remnants of rail
transport infrastructure from every part of the world.
Well Worth a Shindy tells the story of the Old Well, beloved symbol
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the United
States' first public university. The Old Well is a Greco-Roman
garden temple built in 1897 over an old water well on the campus.
The facts concerning the Old Well's beginnings serve to introduce
an historical study of the round temple from Mycenaean tholos tombs
and treasuries to eighteenth-century English garden follies. The
reasons that the Old Well was built, according to its commissioner,
Edwin Alderman, the sixth president of the University of North
Carolina, are repetitious of those that directed such as Alexander
the Great, Augustus Caesar, and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to
build round temples to be symbols of their territorial and dynastic
desires. the designer of the Old Well, Eugene Lewis Harris, used to
construct the temple were not new but were ancient guides filtered
through Medieval and Renaissance prisms. A catalog of over 100
round structures in 14 countries is provided.
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