(1) The Science of Roadmaking: a Scientific and Practical Treatise dealing with Road Construction in its Modern Forms, for the Use of Surveyors, Contractors, Asphalt Plant Managers, etc (2) Management and Methods in Concrete Highway Construction

Abstract

IT will be generally recognised that the formation and laying-out of highways and crossroads have, until recent years, been far more in the nature of a science than an art, though art has begun to enter into its kingdom since the passing of John Burns's Town Planning Act, the first of the kind in the British Isles. Not that with the advent of art into the matter of road-making science will function to any less degree. For though it is not every one who holds the view that science must of necessity retrograde in the absende of advancing, yet it is certain that modern progress in regard to the modes of travel must carry ?in its train scientific progress. (1) The Science of Roadmaking: a Scientific and Practical Treatise dealing Road Construction in its Modern Forms, for the Use of Surveyors, Contractors, Asphalt Plant Managers, etc. By John Wilfrid Green Charles Norman Ridley. Pp. xv + 138 + 5 plates. (London: Crosby Lock-wood and Son, 1927.) 10s. 6d. net. (2) Management and Methods in Concrete Highway Construction. By G. L. Harrison. Pp. ix + 242. (NewYork: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1927.) 15s. net.