Security and Site Design: A Landscape Architectural Approach to Analysis, Assessment, and Design Implementation

Leonard J Hopper, Martha J Droge,

ISBN 10: 047165583X / ISBN 13: 9780471655831

Published by John Wiley & Sons March 2005, 2005

About this Item

Written for the design professional, this book offers basic concepts for site security design and risk/threat assessment, and their relationship and integration into the overall design/streetscape projects.* This book is the only reference to offer coverage of security design for the site, rather than for the building* It provides landscape architects and other design professionals with the fundamental knowledge they need in order to work with clients and security consultants* It includes guidelines for conducting security/risk assessments as well as case studies that offer a variety of site designs that successfully integrate security Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Security and Site Design: A Landscape Architectural Approach to Analysis, Assessment, and Design Implementation
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons March 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047165583X
• ISBN 13: 9780471655831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Landscape - Theory

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Synopsis

Written for the design professional, this book offers basic concepts for site security design and risk/threat assessment, and their relationship and integration into the overall design/streetscape projects.
* This book is the only reference to offer coverage of security design for the site, rather than for the building
* It provides landscape architects and other design professionals with the fundamental knowledge they need in order to work with clients and security consultants
* It includes guidelines for conducting security/risk assessments as well as case studies that offer a variety of site designs that successfully integrate security

About the Author

LEONARD J. HOPPER, FASLA, is Chief Landscape Architect and Head of the New York City Housing Authority's Landscape Architecture division, and a faculty member at the City College School of Architecture and Environmental Studies, where he's taught the technology sequence courses in the urban landscape architecture program for more than a decade.

MARTHA J. DROGE, ASSOCIATE MEMBER, ASLA, is a landscape designer and urban planner with Ayers/Saint/Gross in Baltimore, Maryland. She served for more than seven years as a Special Agent with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security. In that position, she conducted criminal investigations and implemented physical security, personal security, and counterterrorism programs domestically and at U.S. embassies abroad.