Ready, Set, Practice

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

Historical Perspective.

Ethical Perspectives and Professional Conduct.

Forms of Professional Practice.

Professional Continuum.

Marketing Yourself.

Professional Service.

Organizational Perspectives.

Starting a Small Design Firm.

Business Marketing.

Office Records.

Life of a Project.

Legal Issues.

Professional Services Contracts.

Technical Specifications.

Contract Administration.

Concluding Thoughts.

Appendices.

Bibliography.

Index.

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