Urban regions : ecology and planning beyond the city /
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| Author / Creator: | Forman, Richard T. T. |
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| 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 |
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
