Site Planning, Third Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262121069 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 450 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Three Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Used by others in office; no personal experience.. Landscape Architect student? Buy this book. D.Landon.Felix This is a classic book. I asked several professors in my Landscape Architecture program and they all still refer to this book. I used it extensively this summer while developing my thesis. There are lot of skills this book will help you develop as far as creating a sun/shade diagram and understanding the affect of noise on a . "Dull disengaged preaching" according to A Customer. The book is much weaker than Lynch's classical piece "The Image of the City". Text sometimes gets dull and too dry, like in many of reference books. In fact, the "referential" quality of "Site Planning" is the only positive feature of the book. When authors pursue the singular goal to create a comprehensive textbook, the live
(from previous edition) (Journal of Architectural Education) . Whether he is discussing esthetics or pipe sizes, Lynch's writing, conditioned by experience with students, is remarkably clear; but because he is dealing with visual form and spatial relationships, he reassures the reader with hundreds of lucid thumbnail sketches in the margins beside the text; the effect is not unlike an animated film accompaniment
Gary Hack is Head of the Department of Urban Studies and planning at MIT.
This new edition of Kevin Lynch's widely used introductory textbook has been completely revised; and is also enriched by the experience of Lynch's coauthor, Gary Hack. Now, new illustrations double the visual material and one hundred pages of new appendixes cover special techniques, provide references to more detailed technical sources, and put numerical standards in a concise form. This is followed by a case study of a typical professional project and ten chapters which provide new materials on user analysis, programming, site planning for built places, housing tenures and their planning implications, cost estimating, mapping, the reading of air photographs, site design for housing in developing countries, design strategies, environmental impact analyses, and many others -- all illustrated with in-text photographs and line drawings and with Lynch's characteristic marginal sketches.. For over two decades, Site Planning has remained the only comprehensive source of information on all the principal activities and concerns of arranging the outdoor physical environment. An introduction summarizes the site planning process