Site Planning, Volume 2: International Practice

Site Planning, Volume 2: International Practice

by Gary Hack
Site Planning, Volume 2: International Practice

Site Planning, Volume 2: International Practice

by Gary Hack

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Overview

Ebook Volume 2 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.

Ebook Volume 2 of 3.

Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the art and science of designing settlements on the land—encompasses a range of activities undertaken by architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and engineers. This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to site planning that is global in scope. It covers planning processes and standards, new technologies, sustainability, and cultural context, addressing the roles of all participants and stakeholders and offering extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries. Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack wrote the classic text on the subject, and this book takes up where the earlier book left off. It can be used as a textbook and will be an essential reference for practitioners.

Site Planning consists of forty self-contained modules, organized into five parts: The Art of Site Planning, which presents site planning as a shared enterprise; Understanding Sites, covering the components of site analysis; Planning Sites, covering the processes involved; Site Infrastructure, from transit to waste systems; and Site Prototypes, including housing, recreation, and mixed use. Each module offers a brief introduction, covers standards or approaches, provides examples, and presents innovative practices in sidebars. The book is lavishly illustrated with 1350 photographs, diagrams, and examples of practice.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780262350921
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 04/27/2018
Series: The MIT Press , #2
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 295
File size: 138 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Gary Hack has studied, taught, and practiced site planning for more than forty years in the United States, Canada, and other countries. He is Professor Emeritus of Urban Design at MIT, where he headed the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, and Visiting Professor at Tsinghua and Chongqing Universities.

What People are Saying About This

Stephanie Rolley

Principles presented in Site Planning have never been more important for creating resilient and relevant places. This reframed and expanded edition makes it an essential reference book for planning and design students and professionals of the future.

Eran Ben-Joseph

Site Planning will be the new go-to book for those wishing to advance sustainable, ethical urban design and development without sacrificing crucial causes or value. It is a book that Kevin Lynch (who wrote the original edition more than fifty years ago) would be proud of. Gary Hack, in a refreshingly current and practical update, does a remarkable job of compiling an immense amount of information that covers a broad and global expanse of topics. Generously illustrated with color images, plans, and diagrams, the various case studies provide direct and immediate reference to anyone from a novice student to a seasoned professional—making this the definitive publication on the subject.

From the Publisher

Principles presented in Site Planning have never been more important for creating resilient and relevant places. This reframed and expanded edition makes it an essential reference book for planning and design students and professionals of the future.

Stephanie Rolley, Professor and Head, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning, Kansas State University

Site Planning will be the new go-to book for those wishing to advance sustainable, ethical urban design and development without sacrificing crucial causes or value. It is a book that Kevin Lynch (who wrote the original edition more than fifty years ago) would be proud of. Gary Hack, in a refreshingly current and practical update, does a remarkable job of compiling an immense amount of information that covers a broad and global expanse of topics. Generously illustrated with color images, plans, and diagrams, the various case studies provide direct and immediate reference to anyone from a novice student to a seasoned professional—making this the definitive publication on the subject.

Eran Ben-Joseph, Professor and Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Endorsement

Site Planning will be the new go-to book for those wishing to advance sustainable, ethical urban design and development without sacrificing crucial causes or value. It is a book that Kevin Lynch (who wrote the original edition more than fifty years ago) would be proud of. Gary Hack, in a refreshingly current and practical update, does a remarkable job of compiling an immense amount of information that covers a broad and global expanse of topics. Generously illustrated with color images, plans, and diagrams, the various case studies provide direct and immediate reference to anyone from a novice student to a seasoned professional—making this the definitive publication on the subject.

Eran Ben-Joseph, Professor and Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

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