Concrete made this possible. It has also contributed mightily to the problems of climate change that we are seeing this summer.
I've been thinking a lot about this as I reflect on what concrete has wrought for my book Rock of Ages: How Concrete Built the World As We Know It. Lots of good things...but also some very questionable ones. More about that later.
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Dear Mary I will look forward to reading your new book on how concrete has built the modern world we know. How different from the age J J Rousseau lived in with the close , living of crowded town life right up to the mire and mess of the macadam street and road. So, different from our own expansive ribbons of concrete Super Highway networks linking the US East to the West .d.development of the transcontinental rail road lines too.
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