Concrete Island
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory in Concrete Island.
Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory in Concrete Island.
A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash.
... ISLAND D.D. LIOU Bechtel Corporation , San Francisco , California , USA Abstract Kawasaki Island is currently being built in the middle of Tokyo Bay as a component of the Trans Tokyo Bay Highway Project . The centerpiece of this island ...
... concrete structures . Proc . IABSE Coll . Fatigue of Steel and Concrete Structures . ETH - Hönggerberg , Zürich . Wang , J.L. and Peters , D.B. ( 1985 ) Overview of artificial island design and construction in the Arctic . Civil ...
... Concrete structures have been used in the Arctic for many years. Good examples are the concrete island drilling system (CIDS) built in Japan and towed across the Pacific for service in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea and the Prince Edward Island ...
... Concrete. Island. It's not easy to see the grass in things. Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari With regards to Concrete Island, the second book after Crash in Ballard's 'urban disaster ... Concrete Island Deterritorialization ...
... CONCRETE ISLAND STRUCTURES - Concrete island structures are a modification of Global Marine's CIDS ( concrete island drilling system ) which has operated in the arctic . The system consists of a steel base with a concrete tower ...
... concrete . For example , in 1984 , semi - lightweight high - strength concrete incorporating silica fume was used in the construction of a concrete island drilling system ( CIDS ) . Through judicious selection of mix proportions ...
... island trade . Concrete pile , concrete - decked wharf ; timber fender system with rubber - tire bumpers along face . Receipt and shipment of cattle and general and containerized cargo by barge in inter - island trade ; receipt of bulk ...
... concrete tower ; 30 .. 24 Partially obscured by land . Reported F. G. ( 1972 ) . 15950 Mariquitdaquit Island .... 11 04 Gp . Fl . W. ( 3 ) 60 11 White concrete tower ; 32 ... F 2456 125 09 period 15s 18 15960 Tolosa , on old fort on 11 ...