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3. Kansas City and Scandinavia
3.1 Kansas City
Site of the first railroad bridge over the Missouri River, the city was ideally placed to centralize the harvesting and storage of grain from the central United States. It lies on a plateau incised by the Missouri and its tributary the Kansas. The steep slopes reveal a 6 m-thick horizontal layer of limestone, an excellent material for rubble, aggregates and ballast that has been quarried intensively since the city's origins, between two more clayey layers that protect the quarries from water infiltration. As early as 1928, the idea of putting the material to dual use appeared: first, to mine it and then to place the city's arterial roads and parking lots in the voids created. But the economic depression prevented this from happening. In 1944, a promoter leased a few...
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Bibliography
References
Theses
Specialized conferences
GECUS congresses: 6 congresses, from Paris, 1937, to Warsaw, 1975
Symposium "Large permanent underground openings", Oslo 1969
Symposium "Development and Utilization of Underground Space", Kansas City, 1975
Rockstore" and "Subsurface Space" symposia, Stockholm 1977 and 1980
AFTES Congress "Underground and Local Authorities",...
Trade magazines
Gallerie, quarterly (bilingual English-Italian)
Le Monde souterrain, monthly magazine from 1933 to 1975
Mines and quarries, monthly
Tunnel, bimonthly (bilingual English-German)
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, quarterly since 1985
Tunnels and Tunnelling International, monthly
...Organizations
AFTES (French Tunnel and Underground Space Association, Paris) http://www.aftes.asso.fr
AITES (Association internationale des travaux en souterrain, Lausanne) http://www.ita-aites.org
Ar'site, Architecture-Site, Habiter la Roche et le...
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