Book Review

Site analysis, presents an approach to landscapeplanning and development that combines public health,safety and welfare and site’s inherent characteristics. assuch, the approach is firmly grounded by ian mcharg’secological planning method. the basics of mchargianecological planning involves conducting inventories,analysing ecological and social information, and thensynthesizing this information to establish constraintsand opportunities guiding the development of thelandscape. in this book, the process of planning startswith programming and goal setting and then inventoriesare divided to physical, cultural and biological attributesof site, which then through site analysis, result in siteconstraints and opportunities.lagro’s process of site planning and design consistsof programming, site selection, site inventory, siteanalysis, conceptual design, design development,construction documentation and project implementation