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Site Planning
Environment, Process, and Development
by R. Gene Brooks

Site Planning features these forces:

  • the existing context and natural environment
  • man-made improvements and alterations
  • land use controls and regulations

Site Planning examines these issues in sufficient detail to permit an understanding of the ways in which they support and encumber each other in the site planning process.

Contents

Site Planning in History

  1. Historical References
  2. Environmental Ethics: Commandment of Condition?
  3. The American Value System in Change

An Environmet Inventory and Assessment

  1. Mapping: The Method of Inventory
  2. Geology and Soils
  3. Vegetaion
  4. Hydrology
  5. Climate and Site

The Sote in Chage

  • Earthworks: Shaping the Site
  • Grading
  • Retaining Walls
  • Topography and Surveys
  • Storm Water Management and Erosion Control

    Streetscape and Site Improvements

    1. Streets and Roads
    2. Parking
    3. Pedestrian and Bicycle Circulation
    4. The Building and Energy
    5. Land Use Controls
    6. The Site Planning Process

    Appendices

    • Stations Providing Local Climatological Data
    • Sun Pegs for Various Latitudes

    Index

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    Environment, Process, and Development
    by R. Gene Brooks

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