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Author Hosack, Walter M. (Walter Martin)

Title Land development calculations : interactive tools and techniques for site planning, analysis, and design / Walter Martin Hosack.

Imprint New York : McGraw-Hill, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 KTC Book Collection  333.7315 H791 2010    ---  Available
 KTC Compact Discs  333.7315 H791 2010    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xxi, 588 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Summary Includes 40 interactive forecast models on a CD-ROM that predict residential, nonresidential, and hybrid development alternatives from values entered in their design specification template; and case studies and context records, with photographs and plans, illustrating the application of development capacity evaluation to real-world issues.
Note "Provides an excellent and innovative strategy for working towards sustainable land use and development. The models for varying land development strategies can assist local government land use decision makers and planners as well as developers determine the carrying capacity of land within realistic thresholds. The accompanying spreadsheets for the development scenarios on the CD-ROM are extremely user friendly and do not place an undue burden on the user by requiring what may be hard to find or to collect data. All of the data required just is typical of what is necessary to make appropriate land development decisions."--Amazon.com.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Real estate development -- Planning.
Real estate development -- Mathematical models.
Land use -- Planning.
ISBN 9780071603218 (alk. paper)
0071603212 (alk. paper)
Standard No. BWX R5807458
AU@ 000044550825

 
    
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