Covers surfaces including foundations, kerbs and paving - vehicular and pedestrian, steps and ramps, margins and edges, kerbs and wheelstops and drainage channels. The book is a reference for landscape designers.

This handbook of drawn details includes technical guidance notes on design and specification. The number of details has doubled for this third edition, which is now presented as a two-volume work covering the basic construction elements of surfaces and enclosures. This book is designed to be of interest to landscape architects and contractors, architects, surveyors and students of landscape and architecture.

This volume covers structures (pergolas, arches, arbours, decks, shelters, information signs) and furniture (bollards, seats, litter bins, tables). Each section begins with technical guidance notes on design and construction. A list of points against which specifications can be checked and a set of drawn-to-scale detail sheets are included.

Capital gains taxes pose a host of technical and political design problems and yet, while the literature on the theory of capital gains taxation is substantial, little has been published on how governments have addressed these dilemmas. Written by a team of distinguished international experts, Capital Gains Taxation addresses the gap in the literature; it explains how a number of countries tax capital gains and the successes and pitfalls of these methods.