Overall Design

Author: Kevin Lynch
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Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This book is well-organized and rich in content, making it suitable for architects, urban planners, designers, and students and faculty in architectural departments. It serves as a concise professional guide for site development, planning, and management, as well as community maintenance managers. This book is a classic work by the late renowned American urban planner and MIT professor, Kevin Lynch. It includes discussions on the overall design process, analyses of typical cases, and ten related research topics such as user analysis, design briefs, site development and overall design, residential land use rights and planning implications, cost estimation, overall design for residential development in developing countries, design strategies, and environmental analysis. Each section is illustrated with photographs, ink drawings, and marginal sketch notes. The extensive appendices at the end discuss specialized techniques, provide detailed primary sources, and present summary tables of standard data.