Landscape Architect's Portable Handbook

This has just about everything you could want to look up being an LA. it is small- pocket size- but thick so it won't actually fit in your pocket.

An excellent guide for the active landscape architect and urban planner. It has most of theanswers to the technical questions faced day-to-day in the field.

I got the electronic copy. It was good for LARE, simple and to the point. Most things were in here, except I did need to go to LA graphic standards for more details on green roof.

Concise

Your money is better spent buying the Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards book. This has good info in it, but its too small and I hate trying to flip through it.

This is a great pocket sized guide to landscape arch standards. Some information is a little vague, but that will happen when you reduce a 1000+ page manual (times savers) into a 100+ page guidebook.

Good, general information for LA's and useful to study for the LARE exam, if you are in that emotionally draining state of mind! Some of the more plant-based facts are missing but general survey, administrative, and planning information is very useful stuff to have in a small booklike format.

Shipping wise, it took a little while to get this book- but after opening the cover I have found it to be a great resource. It gives you all the basics and quick references for basic information you may need to know at the drop of a hat.

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