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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional

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The Definitive Guide to Land Development-Every Detail, Every Issue, Every Setting

Land Development Handbook provides a step-by-step approach to any type of project, from rural greenfield development to suburban infill to urban redevelopment. With the latest information regarding green technologies and design, the book offers you a comprehensive look at the land-development process as a whole, as well as a thorough view of individual disciplines. Plus, a bonus color insert reveals the extent to which land development projects are transforming our communities!

This all-in-one guide provides in-depth coverage of:

• Environmental issues from erosion and sediment control and stormwater management to current regulatory controls for plan approval, permitting, and green building certification
• Comprehensive planning and zoning including new development models for mixed-use, transit-oriented, and conservation developments
• Enhanced approaches to community and political consensus building
• Technical design procedures for infrastructure components including roads and utilities with a new section on dry utilities
• Surveying tools and techniques focusing on the use of GPS and GIS to collect, present, and preserve data throughout the design process
• Plan preparation, submission, and processing with an emphasis on technologies available-from CAD modeling and design to electronic submissions, permit processing, and tracking

Subjects include:

• Planning and zoning
• Real Property Law
• Engineering Feasibility
• Environmental Regulations
• Rezoning
• Conceptual and Schematic Design
• Development Patterns
• Control, Boundary, and Topographical Surveys
• Historic Assessment and Preservation
• Street and Utility Design
• Floodplain Studies
• Grading and Earthwork
• Water and Wastewater Treatment
• Cost Estimating
• Subdivision Process
• Plan Submittals
• Stormwater Management
• Erosion and Sediment Control
• And much more!

PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 690
EAN: 9780071494373
ISBN: 0071494375
Label: McGraw-Hill Professional
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1135
Publication Date: 2008-06-18
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Land Development Calculations: Interactive Tools and Techniques for Site Planning, Analysis and Design
• Land Developer's Checklists and Forms
• Be a Successful Residential Land Developer
• Real Estate Development: Principles and Process
• Land Development, 10th Edition


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

A Good Landscape Construction Book -
This is a good reference book, filled with useful texts and details. However, it could be a little more compact and more organize in terms of using section and sub-section to sort things out. That way, it's easier and faster for readers to reference and/or looking up certain topics.

winner -
very resourceful and informative.
highly suggest this book if land development is new, or even want something for reference.

A good guide from start to finish -
As a general civil engineer in private practice this book has provided a good overview on the more abstract side of land development including financing, rezoning, and public involvement. All of which, are topics that typical engineers strugle with as it is not the enjoyable aspect of what engineers are trained to do. Nevertheless, these abstract components are just as real as the plans we develop. Of course, the book is excellent for hands on design and calculation support.

Learn a lot -
As a novice developer, this book put me on the right track without all the confusion and terms I would have never understood. It was simple to understand and after reading it, I felt like I knew a lot more. Very interesting and satisfying. Great reference guide all the way around.

very good all-around reference -
I primarily work as a structural-architectural engineer and am becoming more and more involved in civil-site work. This handbook is exactly what I was looking for in terms of something that would quickly get me "up to speed" in the fundamentals of civil-site design.
Of course, no single book could (or should) be thought of as a substitute for the experience and mentoring received from seasoned professionals in a design office, but this one has enough technical explanation and details to get you going with confidence.
I choose this one over the Colley book (reviewed both before making purchase) as Land Development Handbook has more of the technical info that engineers would seek.

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