{"id":17942,"date":"2018-01-27T16:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=17942"},"modified":"2018-01-27T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:49:54","slug":"ihbcs-cpd-in-context-check-out-rob-cowans-glossary-of-paving-extracts-from-the-dictionary-of-urbanism-in-issue-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17942","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s CPD in Context: Check out Rob Cowan\u2019s \u2018Glossary of paving\u2019 extracts from the Dictionary of Urbanism in issue 152\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Islington_paving_copyright_Rob_Cowan2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17943\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Islington_paving_copyright_Rob_Cowan2018.png\" alt=\"Islington cobbles\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>IHBC turns the spotlight on our <em>Context<\/em> Editor Rob Cowan\u2019s \u2018Glossary of paving\u2019 feature in the most recent edition of the IHBC\u2019s membership journal, themed around traditional \u2018floorscapes\u2019.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>Cobbles in Islington, London (photo Rob Cowan)<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For this issue Rob Cowan has produced a glossary of paving by taking a selection of entries from some 12,000 in the forthcoming second edition of his \u2018<em>Dictionary of Urbanism\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Extracts in the <em>Context<\/em> article take readers from terms used in traditional local dialect, such as the \u2018causey edge\u2019, from Yorkshire, which refers to a kerb, to globally recognised materials, such as \u2018macadam\u2019, a \u2018type of road construction with a smooth, hard surface, in which layers of compacted, crushed stone are bound with stone dust\u2026 pioneered by the engineer and road-builder John McAdam (1756\u20131836).<strong>\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Access the <a href=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/cont_arch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/context\/152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issue online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/context\/152\/28\/#zoom=z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHBC turns the spotlight on our Context Editor Rob Cowan\u2019s \u2018Glossary of paving\u2019 feature in the most recent edition of the IHBC\u2019s membership journal, themed around traditional \u2018floorscapes\u2019. Cobbles in Islington, London (photo Rob Cowan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17944,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions\/17944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}