Site planning and design handbook

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sustainability and Site Design -- Population and Demographics -- Anticipated Effects of Global Climate Change -- Land Use -- Sustainable Development Principles -- Green Building Materials -- Pipe Materials -- Cement and Concrete -- Treated Lumber -- Measuring Sustainability -- Site Analysis -- Location -- Collecting Site Information -- Topography -- USDA Plant Hardiness Zones -- FEMA Maps -- Vegetation -- Current Aerial Photogrammetry -- Historical Aerial Photography -- USDA Soil Surveys -- Hazardous Soil Conditions -- Hydrology -- Local Records and History -- Infrastructure -- Assessing "Fit" -- What Are the Program Requirements? -- ADA and Pedestrian Access -- Community Standards and Expectations -- Environmental Conditions -- Environmental Site Assessment -- Why Perform a Site Assessment? -- Format of a Site Assessment -- The Phase I Site Assessment -- Brownfields -- Site Grading -- Engineering Properties of Soil -- The Balanced Site. Hillside Developments -- Minimizing the Impact of Site Grading -- Minimizing the Amount of Disturbance on a Site -- Using Grade Changes Effectively -- Site Stabilization -- Mulches -- Slope Stability -- Causes of Slope Failure -- Retaining Walls -- Erosion and Sediment Control -- Site Management -- The Startup Meeting -- Designing for People -- General Site Design Guidelines for Pedestrians -- Walkways -- Paving Materials and Design -- Open-Space Requirements -- Accessibility and Open Space -- Open Space for Older Users -- Playgrounds -- Bicycle and Multiple-Use Paths -- Seating -- Walls and Fences -- Fences -- Walls -- Signage -- Water Features -- Pools and Ponds -- Pumps -- Plazas and Patios -- Street and Parking Lot Design -- Street Design -- Street Layout and Engineering -- Estimating Traffic Flow -- Vehicle Dimensions and Turning Radii -- Sight Distance Calculation -- Vertical Curves -- Horizontal Alignment -- Intersections -- Streets for People -- Nontraditional Street Design. Traffic Calming -- Cul-de-Sac Design -- Traditional Street Design -- Parking Area Design -- How Much Parking Is Enough? -- Way Finding -- Pavement Design -- Porous Paving to Reduce Runoff -- Reducing the Negative Environmental Impacts of Parking Lots -- Infrastructure -- Storm Water Management -- Estimating Peak Runoff with the Rational Method -- Strategies for Storm Water Management in Arid Areas -- Swales -- Infiltration and Recharge -- Dry Wells -- Filter Strips -- Sand Filters -- Infiltration Trenches -- Infiltration Basins -- Rain Gardens -- Detention and Retention Basins -- Other Storm Water Management Methods -- Sanitary Sewer Collection Systems -- Onsite Sewage Disposal Systems -- Landscape Restoration -- Restoring Vegetative Cover -- Site Evaluation and Plant Selection -- Cultural Operations -- Using Sod -- Enhancing Slope Stabilization with Trees -- Streams -- Sinuousity -- Stream Assessment -- Riparian Zones -- Stream Bank Stabilization. Establishing Stream Bank Vegetation -- Nonvegetative Bank Stabilization -- Wetlands -- Constructed Wetlands -- Restoration Planning -- Wetland Protection -- Erosion Damage -- Brownfield Redevelopment -- General Elements of State Programs -- Liability Protection -- Cleanup Standards -- Risk and Risk Management -- General Strategies -- Design Concerns -- Development on a Capped Site -- Site Layout -- Landscape Ecology -- Site Layout -- Residence and Residential Community Design -- Emerging Practices -- Lot Layout Alternatives -- Easements and Rights-of-Way -- Affordable Housing Site Design -- Design for Security -- Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design -- Territory, Access, and Surveillance -- Lighting -- Commercial Site Design -- Site Location -- Building Location -- Vegetation in the Site Plan -- Planting Design -- Native Plants -- Exotic and Invasive Species -- Using Trees in the Landscape -- Tree and Shrub Planting -- Urban Trees -- Selecting and Placing New Trees. Preserving Trees -- Trees in Fill -- Trees in Cut -- Trees and Carbon Management -- Phytoremediation -- Bioremediation -- Meadows -- Toxic Plants -- Project Management Issues -- The Project Manager -- Communication -- Leadership -- Managing Change in the Organization -- The Computer in Project Management -- Contracting -- Professional Liability -- Quality Assurance in the Design Process -- Getting Paid -- Greening Up the Design Practice -- Dealing with the Public -- Presentations -- Not in My Backyard -- Historic Landscapes and Preserving the Land -- Investigation of the Historic Landscape -- Using Historical Photographs and Photography in the Site Analysis -- Landscape Style in the United States -- Planning for the Historic Landscape -- Creating Navigable Pathways -- Adapting the Historic Landscape for Modern Use -- Accessibility on the Historic Landscape -- Meeting Environmental Challenges in Landscaping Historic Sites -- Land Preservation -- Preventing Changes in Use. The Effect of Preservation on Local Revenue -- The Effect of Preservation on Growth Controls -- The Effect of Land Uses on Property Prices -- Landscape and Culture -- The Use of Land -- Public Land and Private Land -- Growth Controls -- Land Takings -- Sustainable Development -- Building the Postindustrial Landscape -- Landscape Ecology and People -- Science and Design -- Principles of Sustainability -- Emerging Trends -- Challenges -- Appendix A. Environmental Site Assessments -- Appendix B.A Preparedness, Prevention, and Contingency Plan -- References -- Index.