Site Analysis: Informing Context-Sensitive and Sustainable Site Planning and Design, 3rd Edition

Blending theory with application, Site Analysis offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on the evolving practice of designing sustainable built environments. Information on understanding existing site conditions and context-sensitive design teaches readers how a thorough site analysis can create meaningful places and promote sustainability through energy, water, and natural resource conservation. The new Third Edition is fully updated throughout to include coverage of the latest sustainability topics. A new chapter covers site plan review and design review, and new case studies examine site-scale planning and design, infill redevelopment of urban and suburban sites, and smart growth.

Table of Contents

Part I: Context and Approach
Chapter 1: Shaping the Built Environment

Part II: Predesign and Analysis
Chapter 2: Site Selection and Programming
Chapter 3: Assessing the Site’s Physiographic Context
Chapter 4: Assessing the Site’s Biological Context
Chapter 5: Assessing the Site’s Land Use, Infrastructure, and Regulatory Context
Chapter 6: Assessing the Site’s Cultural and Historic Contexts
Chapter 7: Integration, Synthesis, and Analysis

Part III: Design and Implementation
Chapter 8: Conceptual Site Design
Chapter 9: Design Development

Appendix A – Mapping and Graphics
Appendix B – Resources