Site Planning and Design Handbook [Hardcover]

Thomas Russ (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 27, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0071377840 | ISBN-13: 978-0071377843 | Edition: 1

This is 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, and 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'.

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 )

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.”

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 560 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (June 27, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071377840
• ISBN-13: 978-0071377843
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,305,550 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.