Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture

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Newly designed and containing a full 40 percent completely new content, Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture, Second Edition, continues to be the most complete source of site design and construction standards and data. It is fully metric, to meet Federal and International requirements. It features increased coverage of: Site storm water "best management" practices · New urban tree planting and xeriscape concepts · Earth retaining structures and pavement design · Land reclamation, including soil and vegetation restoration · Metric site layout practices, including recreation facilities · Energy and resource conservation · Natural processes and site construction procedures · New expanded construction details · Simplified construction materials data. Over 50 sections provide concise tables, checklists, "Key Point" text summaries, and illustrations to provide an invaluable information resource for offices and classrooms throughout the world.

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Old and busted.......2007-05-05

I have always found this book to be cumbersome, difficult to navigate, poorly organized, and lacking in sufficient detail. But of course for years it was basically the only game in town, so everyone relied on it. Those days are over. I recently purchased Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, and it is an outstanding book. If you're trying to decide which one to buy, definitely get Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards instead. And even if you already own Time-Saver Standards, do yourself a huge favor and buy Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards anyway. It covers everything that Time-Saver Standards does plus numerous other topics, all with much better explanations and details. To top things off, it has FAR more graphics and the entire book is better organized an easier to navigate than Time-Saver Standards.

Usefulness.......2006-07-16

As a practicing L.A., I have bought several McGraw-Hill Construction Books. I get a similar result each time: They seem on first look to fulfill the promise, but I found they don't well serve the need in real life. I get far better use out of Architectural Graphic Standards, and I'm looking forward to Wiley's Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards.

buy the book, forget the CD-ROM version.......2005-03-28

I've got the book and was hoping the CD-ROM would enhance using the book, but it doesn't. The content is very slim compared to the book, and the CAD drawings that are included are also of very limited use. Don't bother with the CD-ROM version of TSSLA.

This book is a must!!!!.......2004-02-06

A great book to have. It was a required text for my site technology classes. Kept referring to it. Lots of information. It should be on everyone's bookcase if you're a Landscape Architect student or already in the profession. I highly recommend it.

ABD EL MOHSEN SOLIMAN.......2000-11-06

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Time-Saver Standards for Architectural Lighting (Time-saver Standards)

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Time-Saver Standards for Architectural Lighting (Time-saver Standards)
Gary Steffy Lighting Design Inc.
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ASIN: 0070610460

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This is the first and only complete resource for lighting design, giving architects and designers--as well as engineers--all the right tools to implement quality installations. Features a graphics-rich presentation full of lighting patterns, installation photos, fixtures and schemes with costs, plus color sections displaying how to mix light and color. Inside: essential safety-and compliance-facilitating code information from the National Electric Code, Energy Policy Act, and other sources. Includes hundreds of interior and exterior details from a range of project types.

Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual

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Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual
Nicholas T. Dines , Kyle D. Brown , and Kyle Brown
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ASIN: 0070170398

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This efficiency-boosting resource gives you fast access to 350 of the most commonly used site construction details. Details for curbs, steps, lighting fixtures, walls, and much more are ready to be copied from the convenient spiral-bound, lie-flat format. In addition, this manual offers you a clear view of each detail both in section and in a photograph of a sample installation. To further simplify and speed up your design and adaptation work, each clear, standard-scaled detail is accompanied by full data on cost, CSI Masterformat reference, applications, installation, intensity of use and substrate constraints, maintenance and climatological requirements, and other relevant considerations. Perfect for on-site consultation or desktop at-a-glance reference, as well as time-saving adaptation to documents, Site Construction Details Manual gives landscape, design, and construction professionals the comprehensive and up-to-date selection of details they need, right where they need it. Any way you look at it, this all-in-one detail anthology is an invaluable on-the-job toolÑone that youÕll definitely want to keep within reach. And it's a handy companion to the popular Landscape Construction Details CD-ROM!

Time-Saver Standards Landscape Construction Details

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Time-Saver Standards Landscape Construction Details
Nicholas T. Dines , and Charles W. Harris
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Binding: CD-ROM

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ASIN: 007026726X

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Access all the landscape design and construction details you need at the push of a button with this time-saving CD-ROM library. It's your fastest route to general details, applications, installation notes, and cost data. More than 350 landscape details in CAD and PICT formats include color photographs of built examples. The interactive format lets you customize designs in record time, and you can download details into CAD programs such as AutoCAD and DataCAD. Details are provided for paving, paving joints, edges, dividers, curbs, steps, seatwalls, planting, lighting, drainage, and much more.

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Good for a start on detailing..........2000-06-06

After having wandered through it a bit, this software seems to provide a good starting point for detailing. The interface is quite easy to use, and provides enough choices to make the results fairly accurate. The details that are provided form a good skeleton for devising more appropriate ones (if necessary). The only problem is that the details are completely exploded, so changing them can be tedious (i.e. altering dimensions or hatches), and depending on your office standards, there's a lot of layer work that may be done to get pen assignments and all of that done. So, at first glance it looks like a good tool for a starting point, and to provide 'place holders' for the information that's needed on the details... plus... easy to use and the graphical interface is nice.

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A Golf Handbook has now been fully colorized and is reissued in this special edition. All the best that you loved about nationally syndicated humorist Jeff MacNelly is still here. Anyone who has ever been entertained by MacNelly's wit and unforgetable characters will love this limited edition collection of golf cartoons.

A Golf Handbook Treasury Collection: All I Ever Learned I Forgot by the Third Fairway

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Book review: Transport developments and innovations in an evolving world [A book review from: Journal of Transport Geography]
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Transport Geography, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World (Advances in Spatial Science)

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ASIN: 3540009612

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The book is describing technological developments as well as urban futures in the information age where the development of ICT sets the pace and options. Despite this dynamic development, the book describes how stabile daily travelling still is and highlights the achievable impacts and acceptability of transport policy measures. Freight transport is discussed from the viewpoint of industry. In addition, some innovative approaches in rearranging current freight transport networks are given. Transport future is mapped from various viewpoints. Light-rail is presented as a possible backbone of urban regions. Methods to evaluate the societal consensus related to the spatial development - linked to transport infrastructures - are described. Methods to assess spatial planning policies are presented as well as options for benchmarking local public transport companies.

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Great book on the first 100 years of Studebaker.......1999-07-16

I have a copy of this book which was sent to me when I was a youngster who corresponded with the editor of The Studebaker News (a publication for Studebaker Dealers). I still have the original box that it was mailed in. I consider it a collector's item.

Fun and Easy to read!.......1998-02-18

This book was very interesting and very informational. I was actually able to sit down for hours and read. I am not a person that is able to stay focused on one thing for a long period of time, but with this story I was constantly interested.

A Century on Wheels: The Story of Studebaker, A History,1852-1952

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A Century on Wheels: The Story of Studebaker, A History,1852-1952
Stephen Longstreet
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Company
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ASIN: B000I32AZ2

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The state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention have combined to create one of the most successful cases of social and redistributive development in the Third World. In contrast to predictions that labor militancy in developing countries threatens to overload fledgling democratic institutions and derail economic growth, The Labor of Development shows that the political and economic inclusion of industrial and agricultural workers in Kerala set the stage for a democratically negotiated capitalist transformation.

When compared to the other Indian states, Kerala's departure from the national pattern is tied to its history of social movements and highlights the significance of understanding sub-national patterns of democratic consolidation and state building. The case of Kerala provides important theoretical insights into the circumstances under which the expansion of political and social citizenship can become the basis for managing economic change. Using examples from agriculture, industry, and the informal sector, Patrick Heller examines the institutional and political dynamics through which the demands of organized labor and the imperatives of capitalist growth have evolved from a period of open conflict and stagnation to one of class compromise. He also demonstrates that the Kerala model has broad ramifications for understanding the relationship between substantive democracy and market economies in low-income countries.

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THE LABOR OF DEVELOPMENT: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India.(Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Vibhuti Patel
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008JB4GM
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on December 22, 2000. The length of the article is 706 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: THE LABOR OF DEVELOPMENT: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India.(Review)
Author: Vibhuti Patel
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2000
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 73 Issue: 4 Page: 613

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