The environment and landscape in highway design

The construction and operation of highways has a significant impact on the environment. While such impact is impossible to avoid, modern highways are constructed and landscaped to minimise these impacts as far as possible. Good landscaping minimises the impact on those living or working close to the...

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Autor principal: Guochao, Qian (-)
Otros Autores: Shuyu, Tang, Min, Zhao, Chun, Jing
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley Blackwell 2014.
Colección:Wiley ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:The construction and operation of highways has a significant impact on the environment. While such impact is impossible to avoid, modern highways are constructed and landscaped to minimise these impacts as far as possible. Good landscaping minimises the impact on those living or working close to the highway, while at the same time regenerating the natural landscape disturbed during construction. Using as its background the successful landscape design of the Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway in Jiangsu Province, China, which opened to traffic in 2007, Highway Landscape Design includes ref.
Descripción Física:1 recurso electrónico
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
ISBN:9781118332955
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