Practical Manual of Land Development

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Summary: Good Introduction to the basics
Review: I feel this book is an excellent introduction to the basic concepts of land development. The book covers the fundamentals of design and is laid out like a textbook. I don't feel it's practical to use for actual hard design, but overall I feel this is a great book.

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Summary: A good book for introduction of Land Development
Review: I got this book just one month ago. This book is very good for the introduction of Land Development. As for the units, I think that some engineers don't like S-I Units (especially the engineers in the east coast). But in the future, all the people around the world will use it.

Anyway, we can use this book for the introduction material. There are a lot of regulations and codes waiting for us to read.

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Summary: A Blunderous Attempt
Review: The author makes a poor effort to even proof read her work. Several of the examples of design are filled with mathematical errors that someone with a professional license should not be making. With most of the professionals in the field of land development using English units, the author's insistent use of metric makes her work difficult to examine and even less useful as a design guide.