Site Planning, Third Edition

Hack, Gary, Lynch, Kevin

ISBN 10: 0262121069 / ISBN 13: 9780262121064

Published by The MIT Press, 1984

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Site Planning, Third Edition
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262121069
• ISBN 13: 9780262121064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 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.

About the Author

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