Concrete planet : the strange and fascinating story of the world's most common man-made material / Robert Courland.

Main entry:

Courland, Robert, 1952-

Title & Author:

Concrete planet : the strange and fascinating story of the world's most common man-made material / Robert Courland.

Publication:

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.

Description:

396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins -- Towering ziggurats, concrete pyramids, and Minoan mazes -- The Gold Standard -- Concrete in Mesoamerica and Renaissance Europe -- The development of modern concrete -- Refinements, reinforcement, and proliferation -- The wizard and the architect -- The concretization of the world -- The bad news -- The good news.

Summary:

Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is. We take for granted this ubiquitous substance, which both literally and figuratively comprises much of modern civilization's constructed environment; yet the story of its creation and development features a cast of fascinating characters and remarkable historical episodes.

ISBN:

9781616144814 (cloth ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781616144821
1616144815 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Concrete History.
Béton Histoire.
Concrete.
Beton
Betonbau

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277606
Call No.: BIB 212468
Status: Available

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