Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition [Hardcover]

Thomas Russ (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 22, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0071605584 | ISBN-13: 978-0071605588 | Edition: 2

Essential site planning and design strategies, up-to-date with the latest sustainable development techniques

Discover how to incorporate sound environmental considerations into traditional site design processes. Written by a licensed landscape architect with more than 20 years of professional experience, this authoritative guide combines established approaches to site planning with sustainable practices and increased environmental sensitivity.

Fully revised and updated, Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition discusses the latest standards and protocols-including LEED. The book features expanded coverage of green site design topics such as water conservation, energy efficiency, green building materials, site infrastructure, and brownfield restoration. This comprehensive resource addresses the challenges associated with site planning and design and lays the groundwork for success.

Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition explains how to:

• Integrate sustainability into site design
• Gather site data and perform site analysis
• Meet community standards and expectations
• Plan for pedestrians, traffic, parking, and open space
• Use grading techniques to minimize erosion and maximize site stability
• Implement low-impact stormwater management and sewage disposal methods
• Manage brownfield redevelopment
• Apply landscape ecology principles to site design
• Preserve historic landscapes and effectively utilize vegetation

Editorial Reviews

Review

Reviewed by Deborah Dalton, ASLA

...the book aims to cover site analysis; environmental assessment; grading; design for traffic control; open space design; project management issues, including permitting and quality assurance; historic landscapes; preserving trees; stormwater management; and materials specifications and standards. Russ makes a heroic effort to cover these topics and to provide an overview of landscape restoration and site layout as well as a compressed discussion of landscape and culture -- all in 12 chapters and 560 pages.

...The four chapters on site analysis, site grading, street and parking lot design, and infrastructure include some good discussion and some useful new information about sustainable design. One particularly nice inclusion is the identification of standards and specifications from the American Society for Testing and Materials as well as other sources. Chapter 4, "Designing for People," has a helpful section on designing pedestrian walkways and paving-material standards and specifications. (Landscape Architecture ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

A COMPLETE SITE PLANNING HANDBOOK REFLECTING THE CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Site Planning and Design Handbook bridges the gap between the traditional methods of site planning and design and our growing awareness of sustainability issues. Meticulously written and heavily illustrated with construction details and graphic standards, the Handbook offers thorough, detailed coverage of:
* Site analysis
* Environmental assessment
* Grading
* Design for traffic control
* Open space design
* Project management issues, including permitting and quality assurance
* Historic landscapes
* Preserving trees
* Storm water management
* Materials specifications and standards

Author Thomas Russ, a registered landscape architect and environmental manager, skillfully blends the technical as well as artistic aspects of site design to generate creativity and efficiency in both realms. Russ provides standards and guidelines that will support a design choice and provide a basis for educating clients and the public.

Site Planning and Design Handbook is the perfect vehicle for landscape architects, civil engineers, architects, and planners and developers who want to successfully create within the “new design paradigm.” --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition (June 22, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071605584
• ISBN-13: 978-0071605588
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #407,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tom Russ is a professor at the College of Southern Maryland. Originally from Buffalo, NY he and wife now split their time between southern Maryland and the Finger Lakes of New York.

Customer Reviews

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1.0 out of 5 stars I was sorry I spent so much for this book, September 27, 2011

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This review is from: Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition (Hardcover)

This is a quite expensive book and the content so poorly assembled and covered. There are much, much better sources for this information at a comparable price. For example, purchase Kevin Lynch's Site Planning. I am so sorry I parted with perfectly good money for this book which will be used so little by me it might as well be a door stop. Don't waste your money.