Figure 8.11 Campus quadrangle composed of a series of watershed-like shallow cells, each with a catch basin located at the lowest elevation within its cell
Putting It All Together Site grading is as much an art as it is an analytical process. Typical landforms were reviewed in this chapter, presented as an idea, like colors of paint or a kit of parts. The kit of the designer for creating site-grading plans is a variety of landforms woven into a well-organized and seamless site-grading design. The parts in the kit are landforms found in nature and adapted to the needs of a site-grading design scheme. The landforms can be applied in solving site-grading problems and thus creating a new landscape. In Figure 8.12 the various contour patterns that translate into landform signatures are outlined, demonstrating how a
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