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Funkcje i znaczenie utwardzania nawierzchni w terenach zabudowanych
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2009) Duda, Jerzy
Paving of roads, streets and squares, called often transport surfaces, is a continuous process lasting, at least, for 9 thousands of years. Its beginning is being searched by archaeologists within oldest settlements and »towns«, particularly on areas recognized as the cradle of civilization. In the history of towns, the essential role play the history of stones used to pave their surfaces (cobbles, paving blocks, cubes or slabs), the history of trees and wooden elements (padding of the pavings with wood, pavements padded with boards), the history of usage to paving of both, natural and synthetic asfalt, as well as the development of bitumen paving technology. The streets and squares constitute »a genetic code« of the town. After damages and disasters, they give a testimony of the existence and the ley out of the town. Exploration, exposing the successive sequece layers become a living history.