Site Planning

by Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack

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.

Genres: Architecture, Urban Planning, Nonfiction, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Urbanism, Reference

450 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Kevin Andrew Lynch was an American urban planner and author. His most influential books include The Image of the City (1960) and What Time is This Place? (1972).

Lynch studied at Yale University, Taliesin (studio) under Frank Lloyd Wright, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and received a Bachelor's degree in city planning from MIT in 1947.[1] He worked in Greensboro, NC as an urban planner but was recruited to teach at MIT by Lloyd Rodwin. He began lecturing at MIT the following year, became an assistant professor in 1949, was tenured as an associate professor in 1955, and became a full professor in 1963.
Lynch provided seminal contributions to the field of city planning through empirical research on how individuals perceive and navigate the urban landscape. His books explore the presence of time and history in the urban environment, how urban environments affect children, and how to harness human perception of the physical form of cities and regions as the conceptual basis for good urban design.
Parallel to his academic work, Lynch practiced planning and urban design in partnership with Stephen Carr, with whom he founded Carr Lynch Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lynch died at his summer home in Martha's Vineyard in 1984.

Reviews

[Tim Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good read, but a lot of this material is verbose. This book can be condensed into a 15 page manual.

[Madhushi Kavindya]

awsome

[Arthur e Luísa · Rating 4 out of 5]

São ótimas dicas na verdade. Extremamente completo e engraçado como ele se esforça para manter o livro repleto de informações…

[Zachary Lacan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Began when I was interviewing for a job as a pole-holder, and later still flipping through the pictures.

[Sukri · Rating 5 out of 5]

good planning

[Mjhrosario · Rating 4 out of 5]

Essential reading for the urban planner or landscape architect