Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice

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John Wiley & Sons, 28/09/1994 - 288 páginas
Ready, Set, Practice

A SUPERB STUDENT TEXT. . . AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL OF THE TRADE FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

The only single-source reference covering all essential areas of professional practice, Ready, Set, Practice is a comprehensive textbook for professional practice courses required by accredited landscape architecture degree programs. At the same time, it is also a superb guide to professional literacy and a career planner for young professionals. Based on the author’s considerable professional and academic experience, as well as his extensive survey of more than sixty landscape architecture degree programs in the U.S. and Canada, it covers all topics deemed indispensable to a course dedicated to preparing students for the real world, including:

  • Preparing for the LARE
  • Legal and contractual issues
  • Marketing your professional services
  • Technical specifications
  • Project management
  • Starting and managing your own firm
  • Getting the competitive edge
  • And much more
 

Índice

Introduction
1
Historical Perspective
6
Ethical Perspectives and Professional Conduct
16
Forms of Professional Practice
25
Professional Continuum
40
Marketing Yourself
55
Professional Service
75
Organizational Perspectives
86
Life of a Project
135
Legal Issues
152
Professional Services Contracts
171
243
176
Technical Specifications
177
Contract Administration
186
Concluding Thoughts
206
209

Starting a Small Design Firm
98
Business Marketing
114
Office Records
123

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Bruce G. Sharky is the author of Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice, published by Wiley.

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