Urban regions : ecology and planning beyond the city /

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Author / Creator:Forman, Richard T. T.
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:xxii, 408 p., [43] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7198091
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ISBN:9780521854467 (hbk.)
0521854466 (hbk.)
9780521670760 (pbk.)
0521670764 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-379) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Regions and land mosaics
  • A framework
  • Terms and concepts to reveal urban regions
  • Regions
  • Land-mosaic perspective and landscape ecology
  • Spatial scales and their attributes
  • 2. Planning land
  • Planning and land management
  • Conservation planning
  • Planned cities
  • Urban-region planning
  • 3. Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns
  • Growth, regulatory, and ecological economics
  • Economics in time, space, and footprints
  • Social patterns
  • Culture
  • 4. Natural systems and greenspaces
  • Ecosystem, community, and population ecology
  • Freshwater and marine coast ecology
  • Earth and soil
  • Microclimate and air pollutants
  • Greenspaces
  • 5. Thirty-eight urban regions
  • Selecting cities, determining boundaries, mapping regions
  • Key spatial attributes
  • Thirty-eight urban regions mapped
  • Place-name synopses of the regions
  • Broad patterns of the urban-region set
  • 6. Nature, food, and water
  • Spatial analysis for patterns
  • Nature in urban regions
  • Food in urban regions
  • Water in urban regions
  • 7. Built systems, built areas, and whole regions
  • Natural systems within and next to built areas
  • Built systems
  • Built areas
  • Whole regions
  • 8. Urbanization models and the regions
  • Land-change patterns and models
  • Four urbanization models
  • Models applied to case studies
  • Urbanization options evaluated with 18 attributes and 38 regions
  • 9. Basic principles for molding land mosaics
  • Patch sizes, edges, and habitats
  • Natural processes, corridors, and networks
  • Transportation modes
  • Communities and development
  • Land mosaics and landscape change
  • 10. The Barcelona Region's land mosaic
  • Perspective and approach
  • Nature, food, and water
  • Built areas and systems
  • Three plan options for the region
  • Reflections two years later
  • 11. Gathering the pieces
  • Settings and forms of urban regions
  • Ability to extrapolate the Barcelona solutions
  • Local communities, ecology, and planning
  • Good, bad, and interesting patterns in urban regions
  • 12. Big pictures
  • Garden-to-gaia, urban sustainability, disasters
  • Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity
  • Big-ideas-regulation-treaties-policy-governance, megacities, sense of place
  • Awakening to the urban tsunami
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index