Authors: Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008
Size: 10.95MB
Format: SFXed pdf
Contents:
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
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