Overall Design (Translation Series of Foreign Architectural Theories)

Author: Kevin Lynch
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Publish Date: 1999-11-01
Features: This book is well-organized and rich in information, making it suitable for architects, urban planners, designers, and students in architectural departments. For site developers, planning and design management organizers, and community maintenance managers, it serves as a concise professional guide. 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 chapters on related issues such as user analysis, design briefs, site development and master planning, residential land use rights and planning implications, cost estimation, master planning for housing in developing countries, design strategies, and environmental analysis. Each section is illustrated with photographs, ink drawings, and marginal sketches. The extensive appendices at the end cover specialized techniques, provide detailed primary sources, and present standard data tables. This book is well-organized and rich in information, making it suitable for architects, urban planners, designers, and students in architectural departments. For site developers, planning and design management organizers, and community maintenance managers, it serves as a concise professional guide.