Time-saver Standards for Landscape Architecture, Design and ConstructionData, 2nd Revised edition--------------------------------------------------Newly designed and containing a full 40 percent completely new content,Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture, Second Edition, continuesto be the most complete source of site design and construction standardsand data. It is fully metric, to meet Federal and International requirements.It features increased coverage of: Site storm water best managementpractices * New urban tree planting and xeriscape concepts * Earthretaining structures and pavement design * Land reclamation, includingsoil and vegetation restoration * Metric site layout practices, includingrecreation facilities * Energy and resource conservation * Naturalprocesses and site construction procedures * New expanded constructiondetails * Simplified construction materials data. Over 50 sectionsprovide concise tables, checklists, Key Point text summaries, andillustrations to provide an invaluable information resource for officesand classrooms throughout the world.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Charles Ward Harris, FASLA is a professor of landscapearchitecture emeritus at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.During his over 30 years of teaching at Harvard he was the Chairmanof his Department for ten years and for seven years Director of theLA Research Office. His teaching and research activities covered awide range of topics: regional landscape planning and design, landand project development, landscape construction and site engineering,and design education. Before, during, and since his many years ofacademic teaching, administration, and research he worked in the professionaloffices of such well-known landscape architects as John and PhilipSimonds, Hideo Sasaki and Peter Walker, Richard Dober, and LawrenceWalquist. In addition he worked for two and a half years with The Architect'sCollaborative on the planning of a new campus for the University ofBaghdad. Walter Gropious was the senior principle in charge. His professionalwork has spanned campus planning and design, personal rapid transit(PRT) system planning and design, housing and large scale of land developmentin the US, the Middle East, and North and Central America. In all ofhis past and present teaching and professional activities he has soughtcollaborative opportunities to bring together people to work on projectsthat are socially responsible, environmentally sensitive, economicallysound, and aesthetically pleasing. He holds two bachelors degrees fromthe University of Illinois: one in landscape architecture and one inlandscape operations (construction and contracting). He also has aMaster of Education degree from Harvard University. His home is inWatertown, Massachusetts. Nicholas T. Dines, FASLA, is a professorof landscape architecture and serves as graduate MLA program directorat the University of Massachusetts where for over 28 years he has taughtcourses in site engineering, structures, design studio, design drawing,design theory, and professional practice. He is the author of two otherMcGraw-Hill publications, Landscape Perspective Drawing, and the recentlyreleased, Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Construction Details CD.Hehas over 32 years of professional experience, including a 10-year periodof work on residential and recreational design projects in Greece.He currently is conducting research in multi-media applications toboth professional and academic design and planning practices, witha special focus on site construction and sustainable design. He hasa bachelors degree from Michigan State University, and an MLA degreefrom Harvard University. His home is in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.