Book Description
"It is the kind of simplified tool that many of us in practice sorely need" - Jamie Greene, AICP, AIA, Principal, American Communities Partnership

*The first computational tool for land development and site planning analysis and design
*Real-world case studies, with photographs and plans, illustrate how alternative development options would affect the project results
*Includes a CD-ROM containing 30 interactive spreadsheets that can be used for every type of land development scenario


Book Info
Discusses several new tools on a CD-ROM that can improve our ability to evaluate the development capacity of land, the context produced, the cost involved, the tax and investment yield implied, the tax abatement feasible, and the relationship between this built environment and the natural world that sustains us. CD-ROM included.


From the Back Cover
Evaluate site development possibilities and land area requirements with spreadsheet simplicity.

The best tool ever for land development analysis, planning, and decision-making, Walter Martin Hosack's LAND DEVELOPMENT CALCULATIONS adds speed and clarity to your every recommendation and choice.

AUTOMATE LAND DEVELOPMENT PROBLEM-SOLVING AND DECISION-MAKING

Whatever the project--hospital, office, mall, or residential development--architects, civil engineers, urban planners, designers, landscape architects, developers, owners, regulators, and land use policymakers begin by evaluating parameters, comparing alternatives and assessing the feasibility of the contemplated land development. This process has been largely intuitive, but actually involves an array of interrelated factors and calculations that can vbe automated to consistently forecast many alternatives in the time it takes to conceive and draw one.

Forty easy-to-use, plug-in spreadsheets cover all basic development design issues and strategies and are included with LAND DEVELOPMENT CALCULATIONS: INTERACTIVE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SITE PLANNING, ANALYSIS, AND DESIGN. Each spreadsheet forecasts development options based on values that are entered within a pre-formatted design specification panel. Alternative values produce instant options for comparison that can lead to more informed feasibility, investment, appraisal, and economic development conclusions.

ON THE CD-ROM

Interactive spreadsheets to facilitate land development decision-making

THIS NEXT-GENERATION UTILITY FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS OFFERS--

* 40 interactive spreadsheets covering residential, nonresidential, and hybrid categories of land use development
* Case studies, with photographs and plans, illustrating how these spreadsheets and design strategies can be applied to development issues in the real world
* Ease of use--variables that can be changed within a single spreadsheet or across several to compare design strategy implications for a given issue
* Coverage of every class of building type


About the Author
Walter Martin Hosack is a certified city planner and registered architect. He has management and design experience in architecture, engineering, urban design, city planning, and zoning in both public agency and private consulting practice.

Over the past 32 years he has planned, designed, and managed projects ranging in size from residential homes to $100 million commercial projects and has participated and led development efforts at both the state and local levels. He has also had extensive public involvement requirng client, public and professional coordination in the search for common points of agreement, and has published several articles relating to this work. He bringsexperience to bear in this book, which is designed to present a common tool that will be useful to all development students, disciplines, and professionals.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"It is the kind of simplified tool that many of us in practice sorely need" - Jamie Greene, AICP, AIA, Principal, American Communities Partnership

*The first computational tool for land development and site planning analysis and design
*Real-world case studies, with photographs and plans, illustrate how alternative development options would affect the project results
*Includes a CD-ROM containing 30 interactive spreadsheets that can be used for every type of land development scenario

SYNOPSIS

Evaluate site development possibilities and land area requirements with spreadsheet simplicity.

The best tool ever for land development analysis, planning, and decision-making, Walter Martin Hosack's LAND DEVELOPMENT CALCULATIONS adds speed and clarity to your every recommendation and choice.

AUTOMATE LAND DEVELOPMENT PROBLEM-SOLVING AND DECISION-MAKING

Whatever the project—hospital, office, mall, or residential development—architects, civil engineers, urban planners, designers, landscape architects, developers, owners, regulators, and land use policymakers begin by evaluating parameters, comparing alternatives and assessing the feasibility of the contemplated land development. This process has been largely intuitive, but actually involves an array of interrelated factors and calculations that can vbe automated to consistently forecast many alternatives in the time it takes to conceive and draw one.

Forty easy-to-use, plug-in spreadsheets cover all basic development design issues and strategies and are included with LAND DEVELOPMENT CALCULATIONS: INTERACTIVE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SITE PLANNING, ANALYSIS, AND DESIGN. Each spreadsheet forecasts development options based on values that are entered within a pre-formatted design specification panel. Alternative values produce instant options for comparison that can lead to more informed feasibility, investment, appraisal, and economic development conclusions.

ON THE CD-ROM

Interactive spreadsheets to facilitate land development decision-making

THIS NEXT-GENERATION UTILITY FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS OFFERS—