Site Planning - 3rd Edition

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This new edition of Kevin Lynch's widely used introductory textbook has been completely revised; and is also enriched by the experience of Lynch's coauthor, Gary Hack. For over two decades, Site Planning has remained the only comprehensive source of information on all the principal - activities and concerns of arranging the outdoor physical environment. Now, new illustrations double the visual material and one hundred pages of new appendixes cover special techniques, provide references to more detailed technical sources, and put numerical standards in a concise form.

An introduction summarizes the site planning process. This is followed by a case study of a typical professional project and ten chapters which provide new materials on user analysis, programming, site planning for built places, housing tenures and their planning implications, cost estimating, mapping, the reading of air photographs, site design for housing in developing countries, design strategies, environmental impact analyses, and many others - all illustrated with in-text photographs and line drawings and with Lynch's characteristic marginal sketches.

Kevin Lynch is Professor Emeritus of City Planning at MIT and à partner in Carr, Lynch Associates. Gary Hack is Head of the Department of Urban Studies and planning at MIT

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Whoa!.......2003-11-29

I'm amazed that people didn't like this book more... I am also a Land Arch student who had it as an assigned book that was rarely actually assigned. I was thumbing through it in hopes of generating ideas for another class and was amazed at the amount of usable information it contained. Perhaps it is better digested in chunks instead of the whole. I found it great as a reference book.

An okay book - required textbook.......2002-01-10

Being a new student of a landscape architecture program, this was a required textbook for one of my classes. After reading between the lines and through the wordiness of the book, I finally understood the point the author was making and found the point interesting. It took a couple of times to finally understand what he was saying, but it was interesting once I understood it. It was on the dry side.

Dull disengaged preaching.......1999-06-12

The book is much weaker than Lynch's classical piece "The Image of the City". Text sometimes gets dull and too dry, like in many of reference books. In fact, the "referential" quality of "Site Planning" is the only positive feature of the book. When authors pursue the singular goal to create a comprehensive textbook, the liveness of arguments suffers a lot. The book becomes rather a dull close-minded disengaged preaching that requires a lot of effort on the side of a reader to understand and utilize it.

Photographically splendid. The pictures are breath - taking........1999-02-21

It was the best book I have ever read. I recommend to people who are involved, or want to be involved in the field of landscape architecture.

Landscape Architecture Construction (3rd Edition)

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The only one of its kind, unfortunately
Don't buy it new!
big mistake
Poor Execution

Landscape Architecture Construction (3rd Edition)
Harlow Landphair , and Fred Klatt
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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ASIN: 0132549476

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The only one of its kind, unfortunately.......2006-04-18

I know one of the authors; he was actually a professor of mine before he retired. I know that he knows his stuff, so I'm praying that this mess of a book is the fault of the publisher.

The typos alone make this text incomprehensible. Add to that illegible diagrams and a complete disorganization between text and headings, and you end up with headaches from just trying to read this silly thing. Unfortunately, this text is the only one of its kind, as far as I can tell.

This book is meant as a comprehensive landscape architecture construction text for students and professionals and covers everything from grading to irrigation to structural load, although not deeply enough to be your only reference.

Don't buy it new!.......2005-10-07

It is unbelievable that this book is $80. I agree with the other reviewers that this book falls short of what a professional reference should be, and the typos are plentiful. For the money, Time Saver Standards is a much better buy.

Unfortunately, there are not a lot of other good options for a construction reference at the time being, so if you run across a cheaper copy of this book it still might be worth picking up. Though none of the topics are treated with great depth, it does manage to get the ideas across and could be helpful for someone just entering the profession or needing a general refresher.
This book is just a very basic overview of construction, and other supplemental references about the topics covered would definitely be a must.

big mistake.......2004-03-26

this text is filled with so many errors. sentences end in the middle of an explaination leaving you without any conclusion. this text is a required purchase for my landscape construction class at my university and i can't believe the errors have not yet been corrected! without a knowledgeable instructor to correct the many errors, this book will confuse anyone who is trying to learn from it. i do not recommend this book.

Poor Execution.......2002-12-18

Without a doubt, this is the worst edited publication I have ever read. While the information contained in this book is valuable, the editorial missteps and omissions are maddeningly distracting. Some examples include sentences that don't finish with periods, formulas with typos, poorly reproduced graphics, mathematical errors (in the examples!), objects omitted from sentences, and a contour map that requires a mirror to decipher (figure 3-5). As a teaching tool, this text inspires confussion and frustration rather than delivering clarity and instruction. A 4th edition might correct the many errors, but this edition is far too expensive for it's lack of professionalism.

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Site Planning - 3rd Edition
Kevin Lynch;Gary Hack
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MC55CO

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A unique guide that will teach complete beginners how to paint a beautiful floral watercolour in just one weekend.

Beginners recognise that they need to acquire basic painting skills - but at the same time they are eager to produce their first finished painting. This popular 'weekend' formula allows them to do both in a limited amount of time - to build skills gradually and to produce an attractive, frameable painting that they can hang on their walls by the end of the weekend.

The author starts by introducing the materials required, and then leads readers through a series of watercolour technique exercises designed to provide a basic grounding in the skills needed for this subject area.

This instruction is followed by six weekend projects for painting a range of popular floral subjects: a single flower; a group of white flowers; an indoors still life; an outdoors close-up; autumn flowers; and wild flowers in the landscape. Each course starts with practice exercises to be completed on the Saturday; readers are then ready to complete the full watercolour painting on the Sunday.

Clear instructions accompany step-by-step photographs throughout, and technical information is given in special feature boxes.

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Thanks, Jill!.......2004-04-11

After months of sitting with my preschooler at the easel and painting nothing but crude daisies, I bought this book. It's been three days and I am already painting flowers that look like flowers. The techniques are simple and are explained well with text and photographs. I find that many how-to-paint books are filled with the artist's own finished works but never show the intimidated beginner how to get there. This book is different in that it takes the reader through a step-by-step process that begins with the first stroke and ends with the final product. I highly recommend this book to the beginning watercolorist.

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An Oustanding Beginner Book for learning Landscape Painting in Watercolor

Watercolors in a Weekend Landscapes
Frank Halliday
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0715315382

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A unique guide that will show complete beginners how to paint a watercolor landscape in just one weekend.

Beginners recognize that they need to acquire basic painting skills - but at the same time they are eager to produce a finished painting that they can hang on their walls. This popular weekend formula allows them to do just that - to build skills gradually and produce an attractive, frameable painting in a limited amount of time.

The author starts by introducing the materials required for painting watercolour landscapes, then leads readers through a series of initial techniques designed to provide a basic grounding in the skills required for this subject area. This instruction is followed by eight short courses for painting a range of popular landscape subjects: skies and clouds; water; mountains and lakes; trees and foliage; buildings and textures; reflections in the landscape; winter landscapes; summer landscapes. Each course starts with practice exercises to be completed on the Saturday - readers are then ready to complete the full watercolour painting on the Sunday.

Clear instructions accompany step-by-step photographs throughout, and technical information is given in special feature boxes.

Frank Halliday runs landscape painting courses from his home in Norfolk and demonstrates to art societies throughout England. He works for Winsor & Newston as a demonstrator and also teaches workshops for The Artist and Leisure Painter magazines. He has written one previous watercolour book and has made four watercolour painting videos. He lives in Felthorpe, Norfolk.

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An Oustanding Beginner Book for learning Landscape Painting in Watercolor.......2007-09-29

This is a wonderful book for learning watercolor painting of landscapes. It is well-organized, has beautiful illustrations, simplifies instructions so that the beginner will not feel overwhelmed, and makes the lessons interesting and fun.

It begins with basic techniques such as washes and brush techniques using a 3-step illustrated method. Mediums, masking, composition, linear perspective, aerial perspective, color are also briefly covered--just enough to get you started, but not to overwhelm the beginner. The author suggests a few basic color mixes for the most popular landscape subjects, and explains cool vs warm colors.

Most of the book is devoted to allowing the reader hands-on painting experience with different landscape projects such as Project I--Skies and Clouds--clear sky, cumulus clouds, cirrus clouds, in a step-by-step method with clear and concise illustrations. Next, rainclouds and dramatic skies (beams of sunlight through clouds).

This book simplifies watercolor painting so that it does not become overwhelming, but also, the beginner can attain beautiful results by the teacher's simplified methods of teaching, and the wonderful illustrated steps.

BRIEFLY, here are some other exciting things you will learn in this great book. Country scene with a village visible in distance, water--sunlight on the water, reflections, moving water, waterfall, rough sea, moody sea, mountains and lakes (an exercise is given for learning tonal recession), mountain structure, snow, misty mountain exercise (a 5-step, 2 page lesson), early morning by the lake ( an 8-step, 4-page exercise), trees and foliage (a 5-step 2 page exercise on painting a winter tree ) another exercise on foliage, tree shapes, trees in a setting..

As the book progresses, each lesson/exercise builds on previous lessons and becomes more complex and detailed.

Next, Buildings and textures (exercise in light and shade) (exercise in simple brickwork) windows. Then, a 6-page steped lesson on a provencial farm in 9 steps. Project 6 is Reflections with a lesson on "puddles on a farm track (5 steped lesson), next, buildings reflected in a flooded field --a 2-page exercise, reflected boats, reflections in a village pond, winter fields, etc. etc.

This is a fantastic book for learning watercolor landscapes. I highly recommend it--the exercises are simplified but exciting. It's a great book!

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"In his heyday, Amon Carter had plenty of name recognition in Texas and across the nation. He was a friend of people like the cowboy columnist Rogers and not at all shy about picking up a telephone and cussing out the governor of Texas. Or wisecracking to the President of the United States. . . . Carter lives on as the personification of the mythical Texan, that larger than life character in a cowboy hat."—Texana Book Reviews

For much of the mid-twentieth-century, Amon G. Carter Sr. was the man who invented the cowboy—at least the larger-than-life Texas version that captured the imagination of the public, presidents, movie stars, and moguls. Carter donned his cowboy persona to build Fort Worth, from the Star-Telegram up, and much of the rest of West Texas. Jerry Flemmons brings to life the mythic huckster and newspaper giant who ushered the likes of Gary Cooper, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, and Ike through the back door of his Fort Worth mansion and feted them at his Shady Oak Farm with rodeos and parties. The Amarillo Globe noted in 1936 that "West Texas is bound on the north by Colorado and Oklahoma, on the west by New Mexico, on the south by Mexico, and on the east by Amon Carter."

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AMON: THE TEXAN WHO PLAYED COWBOY FOR AMERICA.
Jerry. Flemmons
Manufacturer: Texas Tech Univ. Press,
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ASIN: B000RIW9N6

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Children Won't Wait: Sharing the Precious Moments of Your Baby's Childhood (Inspirational Gift Books)
Helen Young
Manufacturer: Brownlow Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0915720833

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Photos by Russ Bryant, text by Amy Goodpaster Strebe. Dramatic, harrowing, and simply unbelievable images of the Marines of Operation Iraqi Freedom, personal letters, and stories of coping with the pain of separation from their families and the horrors of war.

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Great book.......2005-10-09

I am a SIXTEEN (more than 12!) year veteran of the Corps and I think a book like this is long overdue. I found myself in the Gulf War after only 2 years in the Corps and subsequently went to Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, Afganistan, and then Iraqi Freedom. Thank you, Russ Bryant - for making a book that shows us outside of combat, just being ourselves.

Those who are nostalgic for combat are usually those who didn't see any in the first place.

Excellent photography.......2004-07-16

It's not meant to be a "gung-ho, kill'em all and let God sort'em out" type of military book.
It tells the story of how our brave men and women pass the time in a foreign land while waiting for their orders, knowing that just over the horizon there's a country to invade and enemies to battle. Meanwhile, they're trying to create the illusion of home and the comfort of routine...they get their hair cut, they play cards, they wash the jeeps and humvees, they horse around and write letters home and shop for soda and hot rod magazines.
These aren't the stories and photos of glory on the battlefield. It's what our soldiers do before and after their job is done.
Yet, Bryant shoots his subjects in a touching way and really captures the spirit of each soldier as an individual, with hopes and dreams and fears.
It's an engaging and unique book. Not like the other books of military photography out there.

A book all of America should see.......2004-07-16

The photography in this book is by far the most captivating of any images I have seen come out of Iraq. It sidesteps the horrifying shock-value images so often splashed across the media pages and newsreels. Instead, it shows what our soldiers are doing day in, and day out. A beautiful book.

Awesome!.......2004-07-16

Don't waste your money........2004-07-14

If I could rate this book in negative stars I would. I am a 12-year Marine Corps combat veteran and have been following the Marines in Iraq closely. I recommend The March Up and Generation Kill but this picture book is a waste of time and money. The pictures are entirely of rear echelon types in Camp Fox and other camps washing their hair, wrestling, standing in line at the PX. Not a single combat photo except two pictures of a burnned out Amtrak in two locations in the book and one of an M1 Abrams that flipped off a bridge. The photographer should have got some guts and gone and got some good Marine Grunt combat photos. What a waste.

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"Plunder and Pleasure" is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth study of the role played by dealers and collectors of art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the Western craze for East-Asian art was at its peak. The book comprises an overview of Japonisme and annotated translations of two important French texts detailing the trade in Asian art at this time: "Notes d'un Bibeloteur au Japon" by the art dealer Philippe Sichel (1839/40-99) and "Souvenirs d'un vieil Amateur d'Art de l'Extrême-Orient" by the collector Raymond Koechlin (1860-1931). A discussion of the content and significance of the translations as well as short biographical sketches of Sichel and Koechlin, and an extensive bibliography are included. "Plunder and Pleasure" casts new light on Western tastes for East-Asian art during this period and furthers our understanding of the cultural relations between the Far East and the West at the time.

Plunder and Pleasure: Japanese Art in the West, 1860-1930. (Book Reviews).(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs

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Plunder and Pleasure: Japanese Art in the West, 1860-1930. (Book Reviews).(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Monika Dix
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008FI7IE
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 806 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Plunder and Pleasure: Japanese Art in the West, 1860-1930. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
Author: Monika Dix
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 75 Issue: 2 Page: 306(3)

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Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and discusses efforts to detect and control air pollution. Fascinating in its scope and detail, Air Apparent makes us take a second look at the weather map, an image that has been, and continues to be, central to our daily lives.

"Clever title, rewarding book. Monmonier . . . offers here a basic course in meteorology, which he presents gracefully by means of a history of weather maps." —Scientific American

"Mark Monmonier is onto a winner with Air Apparent. . . . It is good, accessible science and excellent history. . . . Read it." —Fred Pearce, New Scientist

"[Air Apparent] is a superb first reading for any backyard novice of weather . . . but even the veteran forecaster or researcher will find it engaging and, in some cases, enlightening." —Joe Venuti, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

"Monmonier is solid enough in his discussion of geographic and meteorological information to satisfy the experienced weather watcher. But even if this information were not presented in such a lively and engaging manner, it would still hook most any reader who checks the weather map every morning or who sits happily entranced through a full cycle of forecasts on the Weather Channel."—Michael Kennedy, Boston Globe

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Good book on a neglected topic.......2000-09-24

There have been many books about the history of maps, but few have addressed one of the types of maps that we consult most regularly: the weather map. Monmonier, a professor of geography at Syracuse University and author of several previous books, endeavors to remedy this deficiency and does so admirably.

He goes back to the earliest days of investigating the weather, before telephone or telegraph when any weather map had to be put together days or more after the fact. But it gets done, even so, and when higher-speed communications are available, people are ready.

He goes on to cover developments both technological and social: the advent of radar as a weather detection tool as well as the now-routine weather satellite views, but also how the weather is covered in the news, including the development of the newspaper weather map from the dull black-and-white diagrams that were once routine to the multicolored glory of USA Today's weather map.

There's weather on television, too, and he spends time talking about both The Weather Channel's coverage with their many maps on a chroma-key background and how local stations cover the weather using the latest in technology, from doppler radar to the fancy, fly-through 3-D graphics that many of them seem to use these days.

My personal preference would have been to learn more about the earliest days of the weather maps and how they were developed and less about the development of the glitzy modern weather reporting, but perhaps that is just me, and, considering the ubiquity of the latter, I can't fault its inclusion.

Overall, it's a well-written, good read, and highly recommended for the weather fanatics among us (and I must include myself!).

A serious, well-written book.......2000-09-18

This book uses weather maps as a central motif. It discusses issues of meteorology (although it is not really a primer on meteorology, as suggested by the Scientific American review), cartography, graphic design, and mass media. It is lightly written but well documented and intelligently illustrated. It is a great read for those who enjoy science books.

Air Apparent How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather

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Air Apparent How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
Mark Monmonier
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPS5VC

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