Time-Saver Standards for Housing and Residential Development, 2nd Edition

Title: Time-Saver Standards for Housing and Residential Development, 2nd Edition
Author: Joseph De Chiara, Julius Panero, Martin Zelnik
ISBN: 0070682623 / 9780070682627
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 1114
Publisher: TMH
Year: 2011
Availability: In Stock
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A comprehensive one-volume library of architectural design data for housing and residential development

Incorporating many recent changes and new developments in the planning and design of single-family dwellings, apartments, housing complexes, and neighborhoods, the second edition of this authoritative volume in McGraw-Hill's acclaimed Time-Saver Standards series continues to offer design professionals access to a unique data bank of design standards and criteria for creating more functional and livable environments.

In superb graphic detail - with hundreds of plans, illustrations, and diagrams - this comprehensive one-volume resource presents an antire library's worth of essential architectural design information for all types of housing and residential development.

For innovative ideas in kitchen and bathroom planning...current concepts in site planning and subdivision layout...comprehensive data for housing design...requirements for playgrounds and community facilities...current concepts on apartment and site security...and much more - here is the one definitive sourcebook that design and allied professionals can rely on for fast, dependable answers to virtually any questions that relate to housing design or residential development.

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Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition

Chapter 1 :
General Planning and Neighborhood Organization
Chapter 2 : Site Considerations and Site Planning
Chapter 3 : Subdivisions and Land Planning
Chapter 4 : Community Facilities
Chapter 5 : Elements of the Dwelling Unit
Chapter 6 : Types of Single-Family Houses
Chapter 7 : Types of Apartments
Chapter 8 : Types of Apartment Buildings
Chapter 9 : Apartment Building Amenities
Chapter 10 : Special Types of Housing
Chapter 11 : Mobile Homes and Parks
Chapter 12 : Rehabilitation, Conversions, and Historic Preservation
Chapter 13 : Housing Controls, Fire Safety, and Security

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Index