Site Planning, Third Edition

This is a classic book. I asked several professors in my Landscape Architecture program and they all still refer to this book. I used it extensively this summer while developing my thesis. There are lot of skills this book will help you develop as far as creating a sun/shade diagram and understanding the affect of noise on a landscape. You can find a lot of software programs that will crank out numbers/diagrams for you, but this book helped me understand how the software works. I have more confidence in my software, but I also know how to figure out calculations and create diagrams manually if necessary.

Very Good, I Like it!

It only got a "love it" cause I passed, but this book was in the condition as described and the content helped me pass the Site Planning exam of the Architectural Registration Exams.

Good information for an architect student.

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.

Used by others in office; no personal experience.

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.