Paving Our Ways: A History of the World's Roads and Pavements

by Max Gordon Lay, Kieran Sharp, John Metcalf, et al.

Book Overview

Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context.

It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. After its empire collapsed, Roman pavements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367520788
• ISBN13: 9780367520786
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"