Site Planning - 3rd Edition

by Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack

• ISBN13: 9780262121064
• ISBN10: 0262121069
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1984-03-13
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

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. Kevin Lynch is Professor Emeritus of City Planning at MIT and agrave; partner in Carr, Lynch Associates. Gary Hack is Head of the Department of Urban Studies and planning at MIT

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
The Art of Site Planning	p. 1
The Site	p. 29
The User	p. 67
The Program	p. 107
Design	p. 127
The Sensed Landscape and Its Materials	p. 153
Access	p. 193
Earthwork and Utilities	p. 223
Housing	p. 251
Other Uses	p. 295
Weak Controls, Built Places, Few Resources	p. 333
Strategies	p. 369
Appendixes
Soils	p. 379
Fields Surveys	p. 385
Reading Aerial Photographs	p. 392
Regional Climate	p. 402
Sun Angles	p. 407
Noise	p. 412
A Site and Impact Checklist	p. 420
Costing	p. 426
Trees, Hedges, Ground Covers	p. 431
Intersections	p. 444
Earthwork Computations	p. 448
Numbers	p. 455
Bibliography	p. 471
List of Illustrations	p. 483
List of Tables	p. 486
Credits	p. 487
Index	p. 491
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