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

Hosack, Walter M.

ISBN 10: 007136255X / ISBN 13: 9780071362559

Published by McGraw-Hill, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A., 2001

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620 Pages Indexed. Lamininated boards. No defects noted. Interior text pages are faultless. Includes Unopened CD. Contents in13 Chapters: This book describes a development forecast collection, included on an attached CD-ROM, that introduces mathematical forecasting to the process of development capacity evaluation. Each forecast model within the collection contains a design specification panel. The values assigned to each component of the design specification establish a project recipe that is capable of producing anticipated results without dictating final form or appearance. We can learn about the implications of these specification values by studying existing projects using a context record system that is also included on the CD-ROM and described in this book. The Development Forecast Collection, Design Specifications, Forecasting Development Caoacity, Single-Family Housing Forecasts, Mixed-use Forecasting, Land Use Allocation and Economic Stability, Case Studies and Context Records, Single-System Comparisons, Multisystem Comparisons, Parking Structure Comparisons, Zero Parking Comparisons, Urban House Comparisons and Suburb House Compairsons. Large heavy book that may incur additional charges for Priority shipoping to some locations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Land Development Calculations: Interactive Tools and Techniques for Site Planning, Analysis, and Design
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 007136255X
• ISBN 13: 9780071362559
• Binding: Hard Back
• Edition: First Edition Assumed
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

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Synopsis

This book helps readers evaluate site development possibilities and land area requirements with spreadsheet simplicity. The best tool ever for land development analysis, planning, and decision-making, Walter Martin Hosack's "Land Development Calculations" adds speed and clarity to your every recommendation and choice. This book helps readers to automate land development problem-solving and decision-making. Whatever the project - hospital, office, mall, or residential development - architects, civil engineers, urban planners, designers, landscape architects, developers, owners, regulators, and land use policymakers begin by evaluating parameters, comparing alternatives and assessing the feasibility of the contemplated land development. This process has been largely intuitive, but actually involves an array of interrelated factors and calculations that can be automated to consistently forecast many alternatives in the time it takes to conceive and draw one.Forty easy-to-use, plug-in spreadsheets cover all basic development design issues and strategies and are included with "Land Development Calculations: Interactive Tools and Techniques for Site Planning, Analysis and Design". Each spreadsheet forecasts development options based on values that are entered within a pre-formatted design specification panel. Alternative values produce instant options for comparison that can lead to more informed feasibility, investment, appraisal, and economic development conclusions.The CD-ROM includes: interactive spreadsheets to facilitate land development decision-making. This next-generation utility for land development professionals offers: 40 interactive spreadsheets covering residential, nonresidential, and hybrid categories of land use development; case studies, with photographs and plans, illustrating how these spreadsheets and design strategies can be applied to development issues in the real world; ease of use - variables that can be changed within a single spreadsheet or across several to compare design strategy implications for a given issue; and, coverage of every class of building type.

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).