Talk:Site selection

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American urban planner Kevin Lynch wrote the book on Site planning. It is required reading for the Architect Registration Examination for license to practice. The book has an article on Site selection, page 64-65 (ibid.) or see "site selection" in the index to the book.

Quote: "It sometimes happens and should happen more often that the site is not yet selected before a designer is called in.... Although site selection and "best use" analysis are somewhat less common than the analysis of a given site for a given purpose, site designers always engage to some degree in both of these modes of thinking, or at least they should do so. That is, they must be prepared to advise a client that his chosen site is (mistaken or) inadequate for his purpose and that he must seek a new one... While advice of this kind may terminate the designer's employment still it is his responsibility. "

Since architects are responsible for coordinating the total building process and site selection is the first step, whoever controls site selection is architect by default; Government planning agencies have largely assumed the site selection function but the law of orderly development is still being ignored overall resulting in the helter-skelter haphazard growth of cities seen all around us bringing confusion and disorder throughout. A comprehensive regional master plan is needed Nationwide - each regional plan must be compatible to the adjoining region and the whole must be compatible with our system of government as prescribed by law. Attention of County Commissioners to layout of roads is fundamental as this tends to dictate the pattern of future development. See: http://www.geocities.ws/douglas36601/background.html

DAB (talk) 17:25, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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