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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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 à partner in Carr, Lynch Associates. Gary Hack is Head of the Department of Urban Studies and planning at MIT | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Kevin Lynch | | Hardcover: | 450 pages | | Publisher: | The MIT Press | | Publication Date: | March 13, 1984 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0262121069 | | Product Length: | 9.48 inches | | Product Width: | 6.18 inches | | Product Height: | 1.2 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.78 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 6.3 inches | | Package Height: | 1.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 4 reviews |
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5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Whoa! Nov 29, 2003
I'm amazed that people didn't like this book more... I am also a Land Arch student who had it as an assigned book that was rarely actually assigned. I was thumbing through it in hopes of generating ideas for another class and was amazed at the amount of usable information it contained. Perhaps it is better digested in chunks instead of the whole. I found it great as a reference book.
8 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Dull disengaged preaching Jun 12, 1999
The book is much weaker than Lynch's classical piece "The Image of the City". Text sometimes gets dull and too dry, like in many of reference books. In fact, the "referential" quality of "Site Planning" is the only positive feature of the book. When authors pursue the singular goal to create a comprehensive textbook, the liveness of arguments suffers a lot. The book becomes rather a dull close-minded disengaged preaching that requires a lot of effort on the side of a reader to understand and utilize it.
3 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 An okay book - required textbook Jan 09, 2002
By brugs
Being a new student of a landscape architecture program, this was a required textbook for one of my classes. After reading between the lines and through the wordiness of the book, I finally understood the point the author was making and found the point interesting. It took a couple of times to finally understand what he was saying, but it was interesting once I understood it. It was on the dry side.
4 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Photographically splendid. The pictures are breath - taking. Feb 21, 1999
It was the best book I have ever read. I recommend to people who are involved, or want to be involved in the field of landscape architecture.
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