Site Planning

Name: Site Planning
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ISBN: 9780262121064

ISBN-10: 0262121069

ISBN-13: 9780262121064

Edition: 3rd 1984

Authors: Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack

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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. 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. 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. An introduction summarizes the site planning process. This is followed by a case study of a typical professional project and…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/13/1984
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 500
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Kevin Lynch (1918-1984) studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin and later obtained a Bachelor of City Planning degree from MIT. After a long and distinguished career on the faculty of the MIT School of Architecture and Urban Planning, he was named Professor Emeritus of City Planning.

Gary Hack is Head of the Department of Urban Studies and planning at MIT.



Preface



The Art of Site Planning



The Site



The User



The Program



Design



The Sensed Landscape and Its Materials



Access



Earthwork and Utilities



Housing



Other Uses



Weak Controls, Built Places, Few Resources



Strategies


Appendixes



Soils



Fields Surveys



Reading Aerial Photographs



Regional Climate



Sun Angles



Noise



A Site and Impact Checklist



Costing



Trees, Hedges, Ground Covers



Intersections



Earthwork Computations



Numbers


Bibliography


List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Credits


Index