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Housing Opportunity or Social Engineering Implementing the Jobs-Housing Relationship?The Town of Wellington Experience
The proposed Town of Wellington project in Palm Beach County, Florida, was planned based on the needs related to the jobs-housing relationship identified in the area. The conditions placed...

A Proposed Revised State Zoning Enabling Act

Performance Specifications for the Design and Manufacture of Energy Efficient Housing in the 21st Century
This paper reports on work in progress in `Design for Energy Efficiency', one of fifteen task areas of the U.S. Department of Energy sponsored Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing research...

Case Study: Design of a Traditional Village Master Plan
This paper presents a case study of a Master Plan for a neo-traditional Village on a tract of land of over 130 acres located in Northern New Jersey. It will focus on the design process...

Rockfill Dams: Steel-Faced Dam (Paper introduced by J. Barry Cooke)

A Current Review of Experience with Asphaltic Concrete Impervious Membranes on the Upstream Slope of Earth and Rockfill Dams
At some sites where an earth or earth-rock dam is being considered, studies may indicate that the most economical and satisfactory dam would be obtained with a pervious embankment of soil...

Earthquake Considerations in Earth Dam Design
In 1963, the writer was engaged by the State of California Department of Water Resources to make a study of the influence of the hazard of earthquakes on the design of embankment type...

Piping in Earth Dams of Dispersive Clay (Paper introduced by Norman L. Ryker)
In 1971 Jim Sherard was engaged to investigate the common failure of a group of Soil Conservation Service (SCS) floodwater retarding earthfill dams built between 1957 and 1970, eleven...

Hydraulic Fracturing in Low Dams of Dispersive Clay (Paper introduced by Norman L. Ryker)

Embankment Dam Cracking (Paper introduced by Ronald C. Hirschfeld and Steve J. Poulos)

Potentially Active Faults in Dam Foundations (Paper introduced by Clarence R. Allen)

Pinhole Test for Identifying Dispersive Soils (Paper introduced by Lorn P. Dunnigan)

Identification and Nature of Dispersive Soils (Paper introduced by Lorn P. Dunnigan)

Some Engineering Problems with Dispersive Clays (Paper introduced by Lorn P. Dunnigan)

Sinkholes in Dams of Coarse, Broadly Graded Soils (Paper introduced by Jean Lafleur)

Piezometers in Earth Dam Impervious Sections (Paper introduced by R. W. Beene and Clifford LeRoy McAnear)

Basic Properties of Sand and Gravel Filters (Paper introduced by James R. Talbot)

Filters for Silts and Clays (Paper introduced by James R. Talbot)

Trends and Debatable Aspects in Embankment Dam Engineering (Paper introduced by Edward B. Perry)

Filters and Leakage Control in Embankment Dams (Paper introduced by Lorn P. Dunnigan)

 

 

 

 

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