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Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

By Richard T. T. Forman

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521854466, 9780521854467, 9780511409776
Open Library ID
OL10437479M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13479339 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology
Edition
1
Pages
478\478
Library
avaxhome.ws
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46
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Description

With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book combines urban planning and ecological science in examining urban regions. Writing for graduate students, academic researchers, planners, conservationists and policy makers, and with the use of informative urban-region color maps, Richard Forman analyzes 38 urban regions from 32 nations, including London, Chicago, Ottawa, Brasilia, Cairo, Seoul, Bangkok, Canberra, and a major case study of the Greater Barcelona region. Alternative patterns of urbanization spread (including sprawl) are evaluated from the perspective of nature and people, stating land-use principles extracted from landscape ecology, transportation and hydrology. Good, bad and interesting spatial patterns for creating sustainable land mosaics are pinpointed, and urban regions are considered in broader contexts, from climate change to biodiversity loss, disasters and sense of place.

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