Urban Regions - Ecology and Planning Beyond the City (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Richard T.T. Forman
Dimensions:	247 x 173 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	478
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-67076-0
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
LSN:	0-521-67076-4
Barcode:	9780521670760

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