Site Planning: Problems of Induction

by Kevin Lynch

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262121069
• ISBN13: 9780262121064
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 499 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Whoa!

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.

Photographically splendid. The pictures are breath - taking.

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.