Land Development Calculations: Interactive Tools and Techniques for Site Planning, Analysis, and Design - Hardcover

Hosack, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071603212 ISBN 13: 9780071603218

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Synopsis

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The best resource available for creating and evaluating development leadership, planning, and design alternatives

Fully revised and updated, this essential reference enables you to compare development capacity options and costs for vacant and previously developed land in less time than it now takes to draw one option.

Land Development Calculations, Second Edition, introduces the language of city design with 40 forecast models that predict the choices available to shelter human activity within limits. This expanded ability to compare options in a shorter time frame will lead to more informed leadership and investment.

This definitive volume offers:

• 40 interactive forecast models on a CD-ROM that predict residential, nonresidential, and hybrid development alternatives from values entered in their design specification templates
• Case studies and context records, with photographs and plans, illustrating the application of development capacity evaluation to real-world issues
• Precise methods of expressing development options and strategies
• Accurate processes for defining strategic development decisions
• Consistent ability to convert decisions into prescriptions that achieve intended results
• A classification system for the built environment

About this title

About the Author

Walter Martin Hosack has 32 years of planning, architecture, urban design, zoning, building regulation, code compliance, and engineering experience in both the public and private sectors. Currently a Deputy Director at the Ohio Department of Transportation, he was Director of Development for the City of Upper Arlington, Ohio; project manager for Brubaker/Brandt: Architects and Planners; and an architect with Nitschke Associates. He has been a visiting lecturer at The Ohio State University and holds Bachelor of Architecture and Master of City Design and Planning degrees from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is a certified planner, registered architect, and member of The American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).

From the Back Cover

The best resource available for creating and evaluating development leadership, planning, and design alternatives

Fully revised and updated, this essential reference enables you to compare development capacity options and costs for vacant and previously developed land in less time than it now takes to draw one option.

Land Development Calculations, Second Edition, introduces the language of city design with 40 forecast models that predict the choices available to shelter human activity within limits. This expanded ability to compare options in a shorter time frame will lead to more informed leadership and investment.

This definitive volume offers:

• 40 interactive forecast models on a CD-ROM that predict residential, nonresidential, and hybrid development alternatives from values entered in their design specification templates
• Case studies and context records, with photographs and plans, illustrating the application of development capacity evaluation to real-world issues
• Precise methods of expressing development options and strategies
• Accurate processes for defining strategic development decisions
• Consistent ability to convert decisions into prescriptions that achieve intended results
• A classification system for the built environment

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0071603212
• ISBN 13: 9780071603218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 624