Simplified Site Design

This study defines the general problems encountered in the design and construction of sites for buildings in broad and easily understood terms. It addresses such areas as determining site conditions, developing the site form, site planning, landscaping and more. The many illustrative graphics contained here qualify this work as a graphics manual for ordinary site design elements. An extensive set of references is also included for further research.

JAMES AMBROSE is Editor of the Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides. He has practiced as an architect in California and Illinois, and as a structural engineer in Illinois. He was a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California.