Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
Whole regions 191 Kua+ Bra+ Bar+ Can• Cut• Eas• Abe• Erz• Rah• Te g• Sap+ Nan• Ott• Por• Edm• Ula• Kag• Sdt+ Rom+ Chic+ Bam+ Ban ...
19 2Built systems, built areas, and whole regions protecting soils and locations close to the metropolitan area that are especia ...
Whole regions 193 Border length of metropolitan area (km) Number of unique/distinctive natural-systems-related features close (& ...
19 4Built systems, built areas, and whole regions Abundance or “density” of built-area borders in urban region (average border l ...
Whole regions 195 Proportion of total border length of built area in urban region for different-sized communities (%) London ...
19 6Built systems, built areas, and whole regions Proportion of directions surrounding a metro area (% of 45 ° arcs on land) Lon ...
Whole regions 197 urbanization and natural resources. Both present and future impacts around different towns are likely to vary ...
8 8 Urbanization models and the regions Suppose you placed a small oval rug-sized aerial photo of your favorite city in the cent ...
Land-change patterns and models are striking examples ofdensification(Kuan and Rowe 2004, Wu 2006). Other internal changes in ur ...
200 Urbanization models and the regions Common urbanization patterns Twomajor factors, physiography and planning, provide constr ...
Land-change patterns and models 201 Figure 8.1An early stage of strip development along a radial highway. Note that the existing ...
202 Urbanization models and the regions around the city (e.g., many North American cities). But dispersed development can also b ...
Land-change patterns and models 203 thecauses, mechanisms, and processes of urbanization. An example is the set of spatial proce ...
204 Urbanization models and the regions aColorado (USA) study found that the likelihood of development correlates bet- terwith l ...
Land-change patterns and models 205 of the mosaic sequence (e.g., from 70 % to 20 % of the initial more-suitable land type), ins ...
206 Urbanization models and the regions Based on considerable landscape ecology and other literature, numerous spe- cific ecolog ...
Four urbanization models 207 Figure 8.2Four major spatial models of urbanization spread. Metropolitan area is thecentral circle; ...
208 Urbanization models and the regions by50 %, 100 %, and 200 %, respectively). Urbanization of course produces quite different ...
Four urbanization models 209 respectively), outward urbanization progressively smoothes the metro-area bor- der creating a compa ...
210Urbanization models and the regions Forthe transportation-corridors model, the distance from metro-area border to the satelli ...
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