Landscape construction / (Record no. 19684)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 419108904
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Transcribing agency NULRC
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Classification number NC 790 .D69 1977
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Downing, M. F.
Relator term author
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Landscape construction /
Statement of responsibility, etc. M.F. Downing
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London, United Kingdom :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. E & F.N. Spon,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c1977
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 247 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes index.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Site investigation -- Earthworks-- Drainage -- Surfacing -- Construction of simple structures -- Water features -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This simple volume is an attempt to gather in one place information on a number of aspects of construction required by landscape architects. It is not exhaustive but if it answers a present need, it may, should further editions be called for, provide a framework for a fuller exposition. Many topics dealt with here in a simple manner are discussed in other volumes in more precise and scientific detail. In many uses, however, landscape architects and others dealing with small earthworks, drainage, or construction problems, for example, do not need to be involved in very exact engineering calculations. Where complex problems are encountered these simple 'rule of thumb' methods must give way to move some thing more accurate. In this case either more advanced texts must be studied or alternatively it may be an indication of the need to obtain the advice of a specialist in the relevant field. One of the aims of this volume is to provide an introduction to techniques and methods upon which a student can build as his knowledge increases. While a good deal of factual information is included to assist in the solution of construction problems there are very few worked examples or standard details. There are quite enough of these, if not too many, available from other sources. Architects have been known to complain that their profession is becoming work and more one of assembling and arranging standard units designed by someone else, and manufactured in bulk. The same danger seems to exist for landscape design in detail through the proliferation of standard details which can be selected, as if from a catalog. Apart from the boredom of uniformity from site to site, town to town and country to country, there is the equally serious likelihood that a design detail prepared for the individual conditions of one site in a specific locality will not precisely meet the conditions of another site in another place. Indeed the use of standard details could be compared to the traditionally quoted dilemma of round holes and square pegs, or vice versa.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element LANDSCAPE
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    Library of Congress Classification     Architecture LRC - Architecture National University - Manila General Circulation 11/26/2019 Reaccessioned   GC NC 790 .D69 1977 NULIB000017443 05/20/2025 c.1 05/20/2025 Books