Land Development Calculations : Interactive Tools and Techniques, 2nd Edition (With CD-ROM)

The best resource available for creating and evaluating development leadership, planning, and design alternatives

Fully revised and updated, this essential reference enables you to compare development capacity options and costs for vacant and previously developed land in less time than it now takes to draw one option.

Land Development Calculations, Second Edition, introduces the language of city design with 40 forecast models that predict the choices available to shelter human activity within limits. This expanded ability to compare options in a shorter time frame will lead to more informed leadership and investment.

This definitive volume offers :

%u2022 40 interactive forecast models on a CD-ROM that predict residential, nonresidential, and hybrid development alternatives from values entered in their design specification templates
%u2022 Case studies and context records, with photographs and plans, illustrating the application of development capacity evaluation to real-world issues
%u2022 Precise methods of expressing development options and strategies
%u2022 Accurate processes for defining strategic development decisions
%u2022 Consistent ability to convert decisions into prescriptions that achieve intended results
%u2022 A classification system for the built environment
 

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1 : Forecasting Concepts
Chapter 1 : The Development Forecast Collection
Chapter 2 : Design Specifications
Chapter 3 : Forecasting Development Capacity
Chapter 4 : Single-Family Housing Forecasts
Chapter 5 : Mixed-Use Forecasting

Part 2 : Planning Observations
Chapter 6 : Land Use Allocation and Economic Stability
Chapter 7 : Case Studies and Context Evaluation
 

Part 3 : Comparative Methods
Chapter 8 : Single-System Comparisons
Chapter 9 : Multisystem Comparisons
Chapter 10 : Parking Structure Comparisons
Chapter 11 : Zero-Parking Comparisons
Chapter 12 : Urban House Comparisons
Chapter 13 : Suburb House Comparisons
Chapter 14 : Apartment House Comparisons

Part 4 : Special Issues
Chapter 15 : Achieving Density Objectives
Chapter 16 : Economic Development Case Studies
Chapter 17 : Open Space and Development Intensity
Chapter 18 : Master Plans and Shopping Centers
Chapter 19 : Cost Forecasting
Chapter 20 : Zoning Leadership
Chapter 21 : Deriving A Principle of Planning and Design
Chapter 22 : Leadership, Issues, and Observations

A : A Classification System for The Built Environment
B : Development Capacity Evaluation Logic
C : The Development Capacity Forecast Collection
D : Software and Information License
Glossary of Indices
Glossary of Terms
Index