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Site and Environmental Systems Planning

6-0-9 units · Graduate

Introduces a range of practical approaches involved in evaluating and planning sites within the context of natural and cultural systems. Develops the knowledge and skills to analyze and plan a site for development through exercises and an urban design project. Topics include land inventory, urban form, spatial organization of uses, parcelization, design of roadways, grading, utility systems, off-site impacts, and landscape strategies.

Spring 2009 · Site and Infrastructure Systems Planning

This course is a client-based land analysis and site planning project. The primary focus of the course changes from year to year. This year the focus is on Japan's New Towns. Students will review land inventory, analysis, and planning of sites and the infrastructure systems that serve them. They will also examine spatial organization of uses, parcelization, design of roadways, grading, utility systems, stormwater runoff, parking, traffic and off-site impacts, as well as landscaping. Lectures will cover analytical techniques and examples of good site-planning practice. Requirements include a series of assignments and a client-based project.

Readings

  • France, Robert L. Wetland Design: Principles and Practices for Landscape Architects and Land Use Planners . New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. ISBN: 9780393730739.
    Required
  • Lyle, John T. Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development . New York City, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. ISBN: 9780471178439.
    Required
  • Buy at MIT Press Lynch, Kevin, and Gary Hack. Site Planning . 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780262121064. ↗
    Required
  • Marsh, William M. Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. ISBN: 9780471485834.
    Required
  • Randolph, John. Environmental Land Use Planning Management . Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781559639484.
    Required
  • Steiner, Frederick R. The Living Landscape: an Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN: 9780070793989.
    Required
  • [France] = France, Robert L. Wetland Design: Principles and Practices for Landscape Architects and Land Use Planners . New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. ISBN: 9780393730739.
    Listed reading
  • [Lyle] = Lyle, John T. Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development . New York City, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. ISBN: 9780471178439.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press [Lynch and Hack] = Lynch, Kevin and Gary Hack. Site Planning . 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780262121064. ↗
    Listed reading
  • [Marsh] = Marsh, William M. Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. ISBN: 9780471485834.
    Listed reading
  • [Randolph] = Randolph, John. Environmental Land Use Planning Management . Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781559639484.
    Listed reading
  • [Steiner] = Steiner, Frederick R. The Living Landscape: an Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN: 9780070793989.
    Listed reading
  • [Lynch and Hack] Chapters 1, 2
    Listed reading
  • [Randolph] Chapters 1-3
    Listed reading
  • [Randolph] Chapter 4
    Listed reading
  • [Marsh] Chapters 9, 20
    Listed reading
  • [Lyle] Chapter 2
    Listed reading
  • [Marsh] Chapter 4
    Listed reading
  • [Randolph] Chapter 12
    Listed reading
  • Landphair, Harlow C., and Fred Klatt. Landscape Architecture Construction . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998, chapters 1 and 2. ISBN: 9780132549479.
    Listed reading
  • Campbell, Craig S., and Michael H. Ogden. Constructed Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape . New York City, NY: Wiley, 1999, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780471107200.
    Listed reading
  • [Randolph] Chapter 10
    Listed reading
  • [Lyle] Chapter 6
    Listed reading
  • [Marsh] pp. 289-99 and 340-51, chapter 9
    Listed reading
  • Gallion, Arthur B. The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design . New York City, NY: Van Nostrand, 1980. ISBN: 9780442227319.
    Listed reading
  • [Lynch and Hack] Chapter 7
    Listed reading
  • Wolf, Kathleen L. “Trees, Parking and Green Law: Strategies for Sustainability.” USDA Forest Service & Georgia Forestry Commission, February 2004. ( PDF - 2.7MB ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • Schwanke, D. et al. Mixed Use Development Handbook . 2 nd ed. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2004. ISBN: 9780874206654.
    Listed reading
  • Southworth, Michael and Eran Ben-Joseph. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities . Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781559639163.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 4.255[J] Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Spring) 6-0-9 units

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