Space Planning Basics
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  • Space Planning Basics
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Space Planning Basics
Mark Karlen
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ASIN: 0471434396

Book Description

The fully updated edition of the definitive book on space planning

Completely revised to address changes in industry practice and new technologies, Space Planning Basics, Second Edition presents all the necessary tools and know-how to effectively create design programming for both small and large space planning projects.

The author's step-by-step space planning approach demonstrates how to use matrices and diagrams to fully visualize the space analysis process, including how to apply bubble diagrams and block plans for establishing a workable spatial organization. With a focus on existing structures, this comprehensive book presents material in a realistic context to create a hands-on guide that helps develop applicable skills and provides accessible information for solving day-to-day issues in the real world.

This new Second Edition features:

Complete with coverage of every consideration designers need to address at each phase, such as building code requirements and environmental controls, Space Planning Basics, Second Edition is a valuable learning tool for intermediate-levelstudents in interior design, architecture, facilities management, and construction management, as well as professionals in these fields.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars reference book.......2007-09-29

reading it makes me feel pretty much miserable, though it is something i need, and the book is quite helpful. i just don't quite think it should be called "basics" because a lot of information there is advanced level. and it just brings the question of space planning on a sad level. there are ways to talk about there in a better perspective. but still, if you don't have any other references, this is something good to use.

5 out of 5 stars Space Planning Basics.......2007-01-05

great condition and arrived very early! book is like brand new!

3 out of 5 stars Good basics, flawed details.......2000-04-22

For very general understanding of Interior Design and as a study guide the NCIDQ exam this book is quite good. Be aware that as a tool for real world design solutions, it is lacking. The authors design philosophy and methodology are terrific, but the design solutions have problems. (example: A door entering into a two stall toilet room swings into the sink area. Anyone standing at the sink will be hit by the door when another person enters the room.) Although, if the reader has enough understanding of real world design conflicts and can spot the design errors in this book's illustrations, then the reader has gained the skill necessary to provide good workable design solutions. Many of the illustrtions do not comply with ADA guidlines, which is NOT necessary for passing the NCIDQ, but essential for the workplace. North Carolina, the state where I practice, has codified the ADA guidelines. Use this book as a study guide for NCIDQ. Be aware of design flaws. Use it at the office for philosophy and methodlogy only. If you are studying for NCIDQ, good luck, keep it simple, and parrot back everything that is required in your design solution. Do your finished design in black ink and write notes for everything.
Earth and Space Science: Inventive Exercises to Sharpen Skills and Raise Achievement (Basic, Not Boring 6  to  8)
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    Earth and Space Science: Inventive Exercises to Sharpen Skills and Raise Achievement (Basic, Not Boring 6 to 8)
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    The looming biological warfare storm: misconceptions and probable scenarios.: An article from: Air & Space Power Journal
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    The looming biological warfare storm: misconceptions and probable scenarios.: An article from: Air & Space Power Journal
    Col (Dr.) Jim A. Davis
    Manufacturer: U.S. Air Force
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    Title: The looming biological warfare storm: misconceptions and probable scenarios.
    Author: Col (Dr.) Jim A. Davis
    Publication: Air & Space Power Journal (Refereed)
    Date: March 22, 2003
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        Sidelights, Fanlights and Transoms Stained Glass Pattern Book
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        5 out of 5 stars Using this book is a breeze........2001-05-05

        Although this book has few color examples in it the patterns are all top notch. I like it. I will adapt some of the patterns, as I do all book patterns, into something more from my brain. This is a good idea resource book. The piece counts my make it more of intermediate use rather than for beginners.

        5 out of 5 stars Patterns Translate Well to Today's Application.......2000-04-19

        This is one of my favorite source books for designs. I use them in computer application so the line size and clarity are important. Like all Mr. Sibbitt's books, the image quality is high. The designs also lend themselves well to a little adjustment in width or height adjustment. Many of the designs have similar components in them allowing one to use them for matching pieces for both transoms and sidelights.

        5 out of 5 stars Good Flower Patterns.......2000-03-25

        There are a lot of clear patterns with around 50 pieces. Many Flowers and a few birds. I am looking for transom and fan light patterns that feature birds and found only one pattern in this book that I could use. However, the flower patterns have really caught my eye.
        Decorative Doorways Stained Glass Pattern Book: 151 Designs for Sidelights, Fanlights, Transoms, etc.
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        Simple, elegant designs, easily adaptable as templates, most in elongated rectangles, with some half-circle fanlight designs as well as ovals and circles. The subjects range from trellised roses, soaring birds, and bouquets of tulips to geometric and abstract designs. Publisher's Note.

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        5 out of 5 stars Beautiful designs.......2007-01-10

        I love this book! They're all either floral and/or curvy designs. Just what I was looking for to do a sidelight in a doorway. I highly recommend it. It's in black and white so you have to use your imagination to color it. I just wish they put more designs in this book.

        4 out of 5 stars Excelent book and great designs!.......2006-07-06

        This book has great patters for doors that could be used in other applications. The only problem I found is that it does not show any colors.

        4 out of 5 stars Good Variety.......2000-06-09

        This volumn contains a good all-around variety of patterns and schemes. Most designs are three to a page (8.5 x 11). They require enlarging. The range of difficulty varies, most look intricate in the small size on the page but when enlarged to window size the number of peices per square foot is reasonable.

        The patterns are (or can be) grouped into coordinated window sets, for example: a doorway with matching sidelights and a fanlight. Most of the patterns include flowers, but not all. Some the the themes include hummingbirds (very nice) blended with flowers, a dove, herons, sea gulls, callas, irises, daffodills, roses, tulips, morning glories, grapes with vines, dogwood (geomatical), parrots, landscapes (sailboat, sunsets with a bird and water), and geometrics (good for bevels).

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        Sidelights, Fanlights and Transoms Stained Glass Pattern Book
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          • The required coffee table book for any stoner.
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          Get Stoned and Read This Book
          Gordon G. Gourd
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          5 out of 5 stars The required coffee table book for any stoner. .......2006-12-19

          My girlfriend gave me this book and while I was skeptical while reading it sober I loved this book when i read it high & drunk!!!

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          1 out of 5 stars WHAT A JOKE!!!.......2006-11-10

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            The Trust was written with the full cooperation of the Ochses and Sulzbergers and unconditional access to The New York Times' archives, but with the authors retaining complete independence. The result is not only a richly detailed portrait of an American dynasty but a fascinating chronicle of the twentieth century. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title

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            3 out of 5 stars The fall and decline of a family paper.......2005-01-01

            It is not surprising that this book's major revelations have not had greater circulation given the nature of family ownership of the vast majority of the biggest media conglomerates in the country, including the massive Gannett holdings of all forms of media all over the world, the enormous Newhouse "out-of-the-shtetl" holdings of not only papers, but magazines, book publishers and electronic media, the Washington Post, and its TV stations, etc., but you would think that some of them would be discussed a bit more than zero. Unknown in the US is any coverage of what the rest of the world classifies as the "Jewish conspiracy" of media dominance in the US. It appears daily in the major media in the Islamic world as the reason for US support of Israel and the reason for jihad against the infidels. It also explains much of French, German and British hatred of the US, long before GW Bush showed up. This book covers some of this, but not much, and is one of the reasons it does not get more stars. But the book has some great insights such as the following.
            Did you know that Punch Sulzberger viewed the current publisher, his son "Pinch" Sulzberger's positions on the Vietnam War to be treasonous because his son said he would cheer on the death of an American soldier over a Viet Cong in Vietnam in a face to face fight? Do you know that the majority of the editorial positions at the Times are held by militant homosexuals, and that one of the editorial writers at the Times is married to a member of the Massachusetts Supreme court who cast the deciding vote on the issue of legalizing gay marriage in that state but never revealed his affiliation in his many columns on the issue? (The Times' own ombudsman, Daniel Okrent, recently said that the Times' coverage of homosexual issues has crossed the line from reportage to advocacy.) Do you know that the Times is a "publicly held" company, but the family has prevented any kind of modern corporate governance with its stranglehold on its preferred stock while at the same time the paper screams about corporate transparency at every other corporation in the US? And that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to "The Trust" that guarantees the succession of the male heir to the throne. A corrupt American version of British primogeniture in kingly succession to the Time's monarchy.
            But this book also shows why the Times has become a shadow of its former self, is beset by scandal after scandal such as the Jason Blair forgeries (which occurred after the publication of this book) and has resulted in the gradual decline of a formerly great paper. While newspapers are probably doomed in this century, just as the town criers before them, as they are replaced by the internet and cable television news, you can find out why The New York Times is in its death spiral by reading this book. Unfortunately the authors were reluctant to get into the business consequences of the loss of credibility of publications such as the Times with mainstream Americans, but this is still a very worthwhile book. Unfortunately the billions of dollars sucked out of the unsuspecting shareholder of the Times never gets to read about the corruption and moral bankruptcy of current Times management, but this book would be a good place to start.

            5 out of 5 stars Grand and compulsively readable.......2003-02-24

            This is a monumental work of multiple biography and institutional history.

            It is cumpulsively readable, like a good novel. This book became my trusted companion during many relaxing evening hours and solitary restaurant meals.

            It is also admirably crafted. As in their previous book The Patriarch (about the Bingham family of the Louisville Courier-Journal), Tifft and Jones write beautifully and with great skill for handling detail and narrative.

            They also have the ability to balance candor and fairness, steering a sober, high-minded course between warts-and-all skepticism and obsequious hagiography. As a reader you sense you are getting a careful portrait of each major character's personality, strengths, foibles, fond traits, and character flaws, while never getting the feeling the authors are doing either a flack job or a hatchet job.

            That's not to say certain characters don't come off better than others. For example, the authors seem consistently sympathetic toward the modestly talented, often hapless but usually wise "Punch" Sulzberger, the dominant figure at the Times from the mid 60s through the mid 90s, while casting his wife Carol as a shallow, cold-hearted Nancy Reagan type. But the book rings of truth and authority, and so one generally trusts the authors' assessments.

            While this book overwhelmingly is concerned with people, not events, it provides a valuable account of the internal debates over whether and how to publish the Pentagon Papers. It also illustrates the paper's vigorous post-war anti-communism, its cozy relationship with the Eisenhower administration, its internal battles over editorial voice during the political and cultural upheavals of the 1970s, and its generational differences over homosexuality (contrasting Punch's bigotry with his son and successor Arthur Jr.'s determination to make the Times a progressive place for gays to work). Two consistent threads run throughout the book: the Sulzbergers' ambivalence over their Jewish heritage, and their determination to place journalistic excellence and family control of the paper over the business strategems and high profits necessary to please Wall Street.

            This book will be of great interest to journalism junkies. But it also commends itself to all lovers of serious biography.

            3 out of 5 stars Beside the Times.......2002-11-10

            This massive chronicle of the Ochs-Sulzbergers and their stewardship of the New York Times gets off to a fascinating start, dramatizing Adolph Ochs' purchase of the then nothing New-York Times and detailing his wildly successful efforts to build a paper of note.

            But once Ochs vanishes from the narrative, bequeathing the editorship to son-in-law Arthur Sulzberger, the book slowly loses steam. Focus shifts from the newsroom to the myriad Ochs-Sulzberger relatives and their beside-the-Times activities, in response to which a reader can only offer a heartfelt shrug.

            In defense of The Trust it has been pointed out that the authors set out to write about the family rather than the paper, but apparently there's little of inherent interest in the Ochs-Sulzbergers outside the Times. Down the backstretch, the authors seem as bored as the reader, dutifully recounting the gossipy infighting among far-flung cousins.

            The Trust, excellent as much of it is, comes to seem unfortunately conceived -- the newsroom coverage is exemplary, but the beside the Times gossip grows quickly tiresome.

            1 out of 5 stars Shame on Alex Jones and Susan Tifft.......2002-03-05

            The only positive comment one can make about this sorely disappointing excavation of the Sulzbergers and their newspaper is that it's written in fluid, clear prose. That's it! This is quite surprising given the credentials of these two supposedly fine journalists; they did a wonderful job excavating another newspaper dynasty -- the Binghams. But this time, little insight is offered; instead, the reader is loaded down with gratuitious gossip. Historic and psychological contexts are shabbily rendered. One can't help but wonder if Mr. Jones, who comes from a newspaper dynasty himself, albeit of a much smaller scale, was not dealing -- negatively dealing -- with his own issues in this book. The Sulzbergers, particularly, Arthur jr, a brilliant, progressive, and humane publisher, and deserve better.

            5 out of 5 stars The Kennedys of Journalism.......2001-08-28

            Tifft and Jones rip the gown off the old Gray Lady to reveal the hidden secrets of the family that made the New York Times the respected powerhouse it is today. The story of the Ochs/Sulzburger clan appeals on two levels. First, it is the story of the making of the newspaper, the ethical and financial decisions required to make the Times both reputable and profitable. And second, it is a good old scandal story, filled with affairs and family altercations, and Times Square palace intrigues. While the book remains superficial about the journalism, it delves deeply into the characters, who are of course the most fun part of the tale.
            Trust, the: The Private And Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
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              Trust, the: The Private And Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
              Susan E. Tifft , and Alex S. Jones
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                The Times of Our Times.(Review) (book review): An article from: Policy Review
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                  THE TRUST: THE PRIVATE AND POWERFUL FAMILY BEHIND THE NEW YORK TIMES.(Critical Essay): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
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                    Jonathan Z. Larsen
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                    From the supplier: The author examines the history of the Sulzberger's ownership of The New York Times. Information on influences of family politics, ownership lineage and anecdotes of family interaction with employees are discussed.

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                    Title: THE TRUST: THE PRIVATE AND POWERFUL FAMILY BEHIND THE NEW YORK TIMES.(Critical Essay)
                    Author: Jonathan Z. Larsen
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                    Ghost on the Wall: The Authorised Biography of Roy Evans
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                      Ghost on the Wall is the official biography of one of Liverpool Football Club's greatest-ever servants. Roy Evans was signed by legendary manager Bill Shankly in 1965, but subsequently found it hard to break into the first team, managing only 11 sporadic appearances before his playing career stuttered to a halt. Following Shankly's shock resignation in 1974, Evans became a member of the backroom staff, coming of age as a coach and trainer. He emerged as a pivotal member of Anfield's famous Boot Room throughout the 1970s and '80s, and between 1994 and 1998 he was manager at the club. His commitment to developing future stars such as Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman, and Michael Owen ensured that he was not to become another "ghost on the wall" at Anfield. For the first time, Evans candidly recollects his working relationships with Reds figures from Shankly to Houllier, and provides a vivid portrait of operations at the club over the last four decades.

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