On the go with baby

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Paula McGarrigle

This second edition is for infants as well as toddlers and has been extended to include Airdrie, Cochrane, Chestermere and Okotoks. -- back cover.

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Karolin Frank, Patricia Petersen

Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning. Nowadays, the organized historic preservation movement in the USA is more than a mere "yearning for history": it represents an active and integral part of urban planning in US cities. In order to approach these planning, economic, and social issues in the field of historic preservation, this book analyzes a variety of interdisciplinary methods, focusing on four selected historic districts within the central business districts of Philadelphia and Boston (in the north) and Charleston and Savannah (in the south).

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Maria Rosado

"Angelica and the babies--including Chuckie's new sister, Kimi--find themselves in sixteenth-century Florence, Italy, somehow transported there by Stu's latest invention, the Flying Dactar machine ..."

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David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal

<p>Cities built on unconsolidated sediments consisting of clays, silt, peat, and sand, are particularly susceptible to subsidence. Such regions are common in delta areas, where rivers empty into the oceans, along flood plains adjacent to rivers, and in coastal marsh lands. Building cities in such areas aggravates the problem for several reasons:</p><p>1. Construction of buildings and streets adds weight to the region causing additional soil deformations. <br><br>2. Often the regions have to be drained in order to be occupied. This results in lowering of the water table and leads to hydro-compaction.<br><br>3. Often the groundwater is used as a source of water for both human consumption and industrial use. </p><p>4. Levees and dams are often built to prevent or control flooding.</p><p>Earth fissures caused by ground failure in areas of uneven or differential compaction have damaged buildings, roads and highways, railroads, flood-control structures and sewer lines.^ As emphasized by Barends , "in order to develop a legal framework to claims and litigation, it is essential that direct and indirect causes of land subsidence effects can be quantified with sufficient accuracy from a technical and scientific point of view." </p><p>Most existing methods and software applications treat the subsidence problem by analyzing one of the causes. This is due to the fact that the causes appear at different spatial scales. For example, over-pumping creates large scale subsidence, while building loading creates local subsidence/consolidation only. </p><p>Then, maximum permissible land subsidence (or consolidation) is a constraint in different management problems such as: groundwater management, planning of town and/or laws on building construction. It is, therefore, necessary to quantify the contribution of each cause to soil subsidence of the ground surface in cities urban area.^ </p><p>In this text book, we present an engineering approach based on the Biot system of equations to predict the soil settlement due to subsidence, resulting from different causes. Also we present a case study of The Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA).</p>