Urban Regions Ecology and Planning Beyond the City 1st Edition by Richard TT Forman ISBN 0521854466 9780521854467

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ISBN 10: 0521854466 
ISBN 13: 9780521854467
Author: Richard TT Forman

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.

Urban Regions Ecology and Planning Beyond the City 1st Table of contents:

1. Regions and land mosaics
2. Planning land
3. Economic dimensions and social patterns
4. Natural systems and greenspaces
5. Thirty-eight urban regions
6. Nature, food, and water
7. Built systems, built areas, and whole regions
8. Urbanization models and options
9. Basic principles for molding land mosaics
10. The Barcelona region’s land mosaic
11. Gathering the pieces
12. Big pictures.

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