enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Haussmann's renovation of Paris - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of...

   The prefect was unable to move the work forward on the rue de Rivoli quickly enough, and the original design for the Bois de Boulogne turned out to be a disaster; the architect, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, who had designed the Place de la Concorde for Louis-Philippe, followed Louis-Napoléon's instructions to imitate Hyde Park and designed two ...

3. Straightedge and compass construction - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straightedge_and_compass...

   It can only be used to draw a line segment between two points, or to extend an existing line segment. The compass can have an arbitrarily large radius with no markings on it (unlike certain real-world compasses). Circles and circular arcs can be drawn starting from two given points: the centre and a point on the circle. The compass may or may ...

4. Geometric design of roads - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_design_of_roads

   A geometric design saved on construction costs and improved visibility with the intention to reduce the likelihood of traffic incidents. The geometric design of roads is the branch of highway engineering concerned with the positioning of the physical elements of the roadway according to standards and constraints. The basic objectives in ...

5. Straight-line diagram - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-line_diagram

   Straight-line diagrams were historically used in transportation planning but have been supplanted for these purposes by geographic information systems. [ 1 ] A strip map is a road map laid out similarly to a straight-line diagram, featuring the same details found in more conventional road maps rather than technical details.

6. Line (geometry) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(geometry)

   The word line may also refer, in everyday life, to a line segment, which is a part of a line delimited by two points (its endpoints). Euclid's Elements defines a straight line as a "breadthless length" that "lies evenly with respect to the points on itself", and introduced several postulates as basic unprovable properties on which the rest of ...

7. AOL - Finance News & Latest Business Headlines - AOL.com

   www.aol.com/real-estate

   Get breaking Finance news and the latest business articles from AOL. From stock market news to jobs and real estate, it can all be found here.