Site Planning and Design Handbook or Janitors Street Vendors and Activists the Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley

Site Planning and Design Handbook

Author: Thomas Russ

A COMPLETE SITE PLANNING HANDBOOK REFLECTING THE CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Site Planning and Design Handbook bridges the gap between the traditional methods of site planning and design and our growing awareness of sustainability issues. Meticulously written and heavily illustrated with construction details and graphic standards, the Handbook offers thorough, detailed coverage of:
* Site analysis
* Environmental assessment
* Grading
* Design for traffic control
* Open space design
* Project management issues, including permitting and quality assurance
* Historic landscapes
* Preserving trees
* Storm water management
* Materials specifications and standards
Author Thomas Russ, a registered landscape architect and environmental manager, skillfully blends the technical as well as artistic aspects of site design to generate creativity and efficiency in both realms. Russ provides standards and guidelines that will support a design choice and provide a basis for educating clients and the public.
Site Planning and Design Handbook is the perfect vehicle for landscape architects, civil engineers, architects, and planners and developers who want to successfully create within the “new design paradigm.”

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Sustainability and Site Design	1
Ch. 2	Site Analysis	27
Ch. 3	Site Grading	55
Ch. 4	Designing for People	91
Ch. 5	Street and Parking Lot Design	157
Ch. 6	Infrastructure	211
Ch. 7	Landscape Restoration	249
Ch. 8	Site Layout	299
Ch. 9	Vegetation in the Site Plan	331
Ch. 10	Project Management Issues	369
Ch. 11	Historic Landscapes and Preserving the Land	385
Ch. 12	Landscape and Culture	413
App. A	Environmental Site Assessments	445
App. B	A Preparedness, Prevention, and Contingency Plan	459
	References	467
	Index	473

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Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists - the Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley

Author: Christian Zlolniski

This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs. Christian Zlolniski's on-the-ground investigation demonstrates how global forces have incorporated these workers as an integral part of the economy through subcontracting and other flexible labor practices and explores how these labor practices have in turn affected working conditions and workers' daily lives. In Zlolniski's analysis, these immigrants do not emerge merely as victims of a harsh economy; despite the obstacles they face, they are transforming labor and community politics, infusing new blood into labor unions, and challenging exclusionary notions of civic and political membership. This richly textured and complex portrait of one community opens a window onto the future of Mexican and other Latino immigrants in the new U.S. economy.