LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: A Manual of Site Planning and Design

Simonds, John Ormsbee

ISBN 10: 0070574480 / ISBN 13: 9780070574489

Published by McGraw Hill Book Co., New York, 1983

About this Item

New York: McGraw Hill Book Co. Good/Good. 1983. 2nd Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 4to., 331pp., Light shelf wear to dust cover ; light foxing on top edge; pages clean and unmarked. .

Seller Inventory # BOOKS344843

Bibliographic Details

• Title: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: A Manual of Site Planning and Design
• Publisher: McGraw Hill Book Co., New York
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070574480
• ISBN 13: 9780070574489
• Binding: Hardcover w/DJ
• Illustrator: Black & White Photos & Illus.
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Condition: Good/Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture-Landscape/Landscaping

About this title

Synopsis

Landscape architecture. A fine hardcover copy. Light shelf wear, small bit of soil on front cover. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Very good jacket; chipping to top edge; light sunning and soiling. Not ex-library. Indexed. 331pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Architecture; ISBN: 0070574480. ISBN/EAN: 9780070574489. Inventory No: 013325.

From the Back Cover

THE Master Guide to the Theory and Practice of Landscape Architecture

The new edition of this modern classic by author John Simonds takes contemporary landscape architectural theory and puts it straight to work. In the schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Planning, the book has established itself over the years as the finest single source of ideas and information on:

* The fundamentals of landscape and environmental planning
* Nature as the all-embracing framework
* Topography and earth modeling
* Treatment of wetlands, waterways, and waterbodies
* Design response to climate and weather
* Guidelines to site selection and analysis
* The site planning/development process
* Site systems
* Design treatment of views and viewing
* Pedestrian and vehicular trafficways
* Growth management and the preclusion of urban sprawl
* The integration of dwellings and gardens
* Helpful ideas on walls, paving, decks, signage, lighting, pools, fountains, and outdoor furnishings
* Neighborhoods and communities
* The revitalization of suburbs, towns, and cities
* Historic prevervation and dynamic conservation
* Land restoration and reclamation
* Outdoor living and recreation

Landscape architects, architects, and all those involved with the shaping of our living environment will find in this book a systematic approach to the creation of more usable, efficient, and attractive outdoor ways and places. Completely revised and up-dated, this colorful edition includes hundreds of "teaching diagrams," plans, photographs and a new graphic display of current "best of show" examples. Simply put—it is the best one-volume course ever written on land planning and landscape design.