Overview
Main description
The essential reference on site planning and design, fully updated to cover sustainable development
Incorporating sound environmental considerations into traditional site design process contributes to better site planning and design. This authoritative guide combines established approaches to site planning with sustainable practices and increased environmental sensitivity in site work. The book addresses the challenges associated with site planning and design and lays the groundwork for success.
Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition includes an updated review of the ADA standards contained in the recently updated National Building Code, a revised discussion of urban landfill projects, expanded coverage of site security issues, and the latest information on LEED as it relates to site planning and design.
Table of contents
Ch 1. Site Planning and Design
Ch 2. Sustainability and the Green Site
Ch 3. Site Analysis
Ch 4. Site Grading
Ch 5. Designing for People
Ch 6. Street and Parking Lot Design
Ch 7. Infrastructure
Ch 8. Landscape Restoration
Ch 9. Site Layout
Ch 10. Vegetation in the Site Plan
Ch 11. Project Management Issues
Ch 12. Historic Landscapes and Preserving the Land
Ch 13. Landscape and Culture
Appendix A. Environmental Site Assessments
Appendix B. Preparedness, Prevention, and Contingency Plan
References
Index
Author comments
Thomas H. Russ is a registered landscape architect with experience as a principle in several firms, as a project manager for more than 70 projects, and as principle in charge for more than 150 projects. His experience ranges from projects designing residential subdivisions, to regional commercial centers, to the restoration of more than 30 brownfield sites and other impacted landscapes. Mr. Russ, currently Professor of Environmental Technology, College of Southern Maryland, is the author of the McGraw-Hill publication Redeveloping Brownfields (1999).
