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For better plans-and better projectsThe complete guide to site analysisSite analysis is the key to a well-designed project. In fact, the careful and complete analysis of a site and its surrounding context can lead to better development proposals, smoother design implementation, and, ultimately, higher quality built environments.This carefully conceived book is the first to detail each crucial step in the site analysis and planning process, from site selection through design development. It shows how these activities are integrated to arrive at a site plan that successfully balances the needs of the client and other stakeholders with the site's suitability for the intended land uses. With more than 130 illustrations, this book includes many outstanding examples of maps and site plans created by leading land planning firms. It offers guidance on:* Site identification, evaluation, and selection* Site inventories of physical, biological, and cultural attributes* Land use suitability analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)* Concept planning and design development* Graphic communication with clients, government agencies, and other stakeholdersFilled with need-to-know information on the entire land planning and design process, Site Analysis is a vital addition to the library of students and professionals in landscape architecture, urban design and planning, and related areas.

Steden en omgeving ; vormgeving ; analyse ; planning --- 711.4(C) --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad --- Building sites --- Geografie --- Environmental aspects. --- Planning. --- Landschapskunde --- Zorg en Planning. --- Site planning --- Sites, Building --- Environmental aspects --- Planning --- Building --- Surveying --- Building sites - Planning --- Building sites - Environmental aspects

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How building and site, technology and topography, interact to create successful buildings and resolve theoretical issues in practice.Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In Uncommon Ground, David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively.Leatherbarrow rejects the assumption that buildings of the modern period, particularly those that used the latest technology, were designed without regard to their surroundings. Although the prefabricated elements used in the buildings were designed independent of siting considerations, architects used these elements to modulate the environment. Leatherbarrow shows how the role of walls, the traditional element of architectural definition and platform partition, became less significant than that of the platforms themselves, the floors, ceilings, and intermediate levels. He shows how frontality was replaced by the building's four-sided extension into its surroundings, resulting in frontal configurations previously characteristic of the back. Arguing that the boundary between inside and outside was radically redefined, Leatherbarrow challenges cherished notions about the autonomy of the architectural object and about regional coherence. Modern architectural topography, he suggests, is an interplay of buildings, landscapes, and cities, as well as the humans who use them. The conflict between technological progress and cultural continuity, Leatherbarrow claims, exists only in theory, not in the real world of architecture. He argues that the act of building is not a matter of restoring regional identity by re-creating familiar signs, but of incorporating construction into the process of topography's perpetual becoming.

Building sites --- Architecture and technology --- Architecture --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Planning --- Environmental aspects --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Technology and architecture --- Site planning --- Design and construction --- Art --- Building --- Technology --- Architecture and technology. --- Planning. --- Environmental aspects. --- Neutra, Richard Joseph, --- Raymond, Antonin, --- Kōnstantinidēs, Arēs, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/Modern Architecture --- Konstantinidis, Aris, --- Konsztantinidisz, Arisz, --- Κωνσταντινίδης, Αρης, --- Rajman, Antonin, --- Neutra, Richard, --- Neutra, Richard --- Neutra, Richard J. --- Building sites - Planning --- Architecture - Environmental aspects --- Neutra, Richard Joseph, - 1892-1970 - Criticism and interpretation --- Raymond, Antonin, - 1888- - Criticism and interpretation --- Konstantinides, Ares, - 1913- - Criticism and interpretation