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Eco-Cities - A Planning Guide (Paperback)
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Eco-Cities - A Planning Guide (Paperback)
Series: Applied Ecology and Environmental Management
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As cities undergo vast changes due to industrialization,
urbanization, and globalization, environmental considerations
assume a growing importance in the urban planning processes of an
increasing number of governments around the world. Several cities
and regions around the world have already enacted policies that
signal the emergence of a paradigm of sustainability in eco-cities
planning. Providing an overview of urban ecosystem structure,
function, and change, Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide addresses how to
successfully accomplish eco-city planning that meets government
requirements. It adds a new dimension to the understanding and
application of the concept of urban sustainability, based on
hypotheses about feedback between social and biogeophysical
processes. Emphasizing integration, the first part of the book
discusses various aspects of planning theory. It presents three
innovative theories for socioeconomic models: a theory on the
locational choices made by households and firms, an urban version
of the stream continuum concept, and an application of
metacommunity theory to the fragmented urban biota. These theories
raise new urban planning questions and stimulate integrated
modeling. The book also introduces urban planning modeling that
uses existing social, vegetation, ecohydrological, and ecosystem
service modules but is refined and operated for enhanced
cross-disciplinary integration and prediction. The second part of
the book consists of several case studies of Chinese eco-cities
covering a majority of the urban development patterns that offer
in-depth examples of planning practices currently in use. Drawing
on experimentation, comparison, long-term measurement, and
modeling, this fascinating guide helps readers better understand
eco-cities and eco-landscapes as integrated, spatially extensive,
complex adaptive systems. It lays a solid foundation for engagement
between urban planners, researchers, educators, policy makers, and
citizens as they work to adapt to changing environmental, social,
and economic conditions.
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