Author : Mike Schlaich
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 9783868594881
As part of the international Footbridge 2017 conference, experts from around the world developed pedestrian bridge ideas for six locations in Berlin. This book presents all of the proposed designs with sketches and plans.
Author : Edith Sheffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0199737045
Examines "Burned Bridge," the intersection between two sister cities in East and West Germany, and reveals how the daily adjustments of anxious residents shaped the barrier that divided them.
Author : Berlin Iron Bridge Co
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781013823190
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Gavin Francis
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2024-09-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1805300148
In The Bridge Between Worlds, Gavin Francis explores bridges old and new, man-made or natural, musing on the view from the bridge through history, geopolitics, psychology and literature. Against the ever-growing obsession with national borders in politics and the media, bridges – whether seen as functional, emblematic or aesthetical – both unite and divide us. From Ponte Sant’Angelo to Brooklyn Bridge, from Victoria Falls Bridge to Tavanasa Bridge, The Bridge Between Worlds reflects on the bridges between nations and individuals, how they act as frontiers and reflects on the lives of people either side of the border.
Author : Leighton Buzzard Writers
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1326028855
This anthology, the third published by Leighton Buzzard Writers, was inspired by the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. Taking this theme as inspiration, local writers, both members of our group and the wider public, have produced works of both fiction and non-fiction, along with illustrations by local artists to form a fitting commemoration of life, loss and love in Leighton-Linslade, Beds, Bucks and Herts in the years 1914-1918 and after
Author : Thane Gustafson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674987950
Europe and Russia are pushing against each other in a contest of economic doctrines and political ambitions, seemingly erasing the vision of cooperation that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Thane Gustafson argues that natural gas serves as a bridge over troubled geopolitical waters, uniting the region through common economic interests.
Author : Ursula Baus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2007-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764382228
The influence on the interplay of technical progress, imagination and functional variety in footbridges are different from those affecting large-scale bridges. This fact has resulted in an exhaustible variety of distinctive design, as is beautifully illustrated by the selection of footbridges shown in this book. Essays clearly explain the technical aspects and the aesthetic potential of different structure designs. Footbridges contains detailed presentations of 90 european bridges, with text, comprehensive and detail plans, and photographs taken especially for the volume. With projects by Arup, Jürg Conzett, Foster and Partners, Happold, Schlaich Bergermann and Partners, Wilkinson Eyre, Jiri Strasky and others. The examples are organized chronologically in thematically focused chapters: lightweight bridges, moving bridges, covered bridges, taut-ribbon suspension bridges, arch bridges, etc. For those whose curiosity is aroused by the insight given into this type of bridge building, a compilation of 120 more footbridges, listed by location, provide a starting point for further investigation. Ursula Baus is an independent architecture critic and the author of numerous books and technical articles. She teaches at Stuttgart University. Mike Schlaich is a professor of massive construction at the Technische Universität (Technical University) in Berlin and a partner of the firm Schlaich Bergermann and Partners. Wilfried Dechau is a photographer – he lives and works in Stuttgart and specializes in architecture, bridges, and portraits.
Author : Giles Whittell
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0385668082
Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962, in the first and most legendary prisoner exhange between East and West? Bridge of Spies vividly traces the journeys of these men, whose fate defines the complex conflicts that characterized the most dangerous years of the Cold War. Bridge of Spies is a true story of three men — a Soviet Spy who was a master of disguise; Gary Powers, an American who was captured when his spy plane was shot down by the Russians; and Frederic Pryor, a young American doctor mistakenly identified as a spy and captured by the Soviets. The men in this three-way political swap had been drawn into the nadir of the Cold War by duty and curiosity, and the same tragicomedy of errors that induced Khrushchev to send missiles to Castro. Two of them — the spy and the pilot — were the original seekers of weapons of mass destruction. The third was an intellectual, in over his head. They were rescued against daunting odds by fate and by their families, and then all but forgotten. Even the U2 spy-plane pilot Powers is remembered now chiefly for the way he was vilified in the U.S. on his return. Yet the fates of those men exemplified the pathological mistrust that fueled the arms race for the next 30 years. This is their story.
Author : Glenn A. Knoblock
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0786486996
This book chronicles the development of metal truss and related bridges in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont from the 1860s to 1940: the various types and their inventors, historical changes in the highway and railroad networks that caused these bridges to be built, the rise of state bridge-building agencies, developments in the field of civil engineering, and preservation trends. While many notable metal bridges of the past are discussed in the context of these topics, the book's main focus is a detailed account of the remaining historic bridges.
Author : Ivo Andríc
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226020457
"A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans ... stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it" and to the sufferings of the people of Bosnia.--Cover.
