Marc, "Land Development Handbook"
McGraw-Hill Professional; 3 ed | 2008 | ISBN: 0071494375 | 1135
pages | PDF | 25,8 MB
Review How to develop. "Forty years ago, for a
typical suburban house, the cost of engineering, planning, and surveying,
including fees paid to agencies, was about the cost of a refrigerator today.
Today it is probably greater than the total cost of all of kitchen and other
electronic appliances combined." So write Sidney Dewberry and Dennis Couture in
the overview chapter that introduces the mammoth second edition of the Land
Development Handbook: Planning, Engineering, and Surveying (2002; McGraw-Hill;
1,124 pp.; $150). A development and consulting firm, the Dewberry Companies, is
listed as author, which seems appropriate since most of the 26 editors and
contributing authors are employees of the firm.
The first edition of this handbook was published in 1996. For
this version, several of the 41 chapters have been updated, and the order of
presentation has been changed to reflect the way issues come up in a project.
There are six sections: feasibility and site analysis, conceptual design,
schematic design, final design, plan submission and permitting, and
construction. This is a how-to book that aspires to be both extensive and
detailed; its table of alone runs 13 pages.
As the title and cover photo suggest, the authors focus on
development of greenfields. The engineering perspective is dominant, and the
book's brief mentions of smart growth and new ways of designing feel largely
extraneous to the business at hand. Thus, the 51-page chapter on suburban street
design devotes two pages to pedestrians, and the list of suggested readings in
the chapter on development patterns and principles includes no work published
since 1990