Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
Preface xix full range of expertise would be best. Indeed, fitting together small pieces makes incremental progress, while overa ...
xx Preface urban-region ecology and planning beyond the city is analyzed in the context of broader big-picture perspectives (Cha ...
Acknowledgments Ideeply appreciate an impressive group of colleagues and friends who provided key insights that significantly sh ...
xxii Acknowledgments Verona Wheeler, Emily Wilson, Wu Yue, Yang Lu (Gavin), Yang Rui, Yu Kongjian, and Zhu Yu-Fan and Yao. It is ...
1 Regions and land mosaics Imagine a group of rhinos rampaging through a restaurant, while we concen- trate on adjusting the nap ...
2Regions and land mosaics were growing at 3 % per year, doubling in a bare 23 years. Now, a generation or two later, most land p ...
Aframework 3 Figure 1.1‘‘ Natural” disaster. In this area earthquakes are natural and frequent, while the ‘‘disaster” resulted f ...
4Regions and land mosaics Consider the land surface of the urban region. Land is home and heritage, and therefore a source of su ...
Aframework 5 are normally expensive. To gradually address a legacy of cumulative impacts or accomplish a major new initiative, s ...
6Regions and land mosaics Urban-region ring (green space masaic with scattered buildings, villages, towns and satellite cities) ...
Terms andconcepts to reveal urban regions 7 built metro area is limited in most cities worldwide. Abuilt areais land with contin ...
8Regions and land mosaics Nature, natural systems, and natural areas are terms widely used in this book, yet,as noted in numerou ...
Terms andconcepts to reveal urban regions 9 and much more, for the long term. Normally each protected area accomplishes multiple ...
10 Regions and land mosaics spatial ways, such as expanding concentric zones or extending out transporta- tion corridors or disp ...
Regions 11 regions (where the term seems awkward) predominant land covers vary from cropland to forest or desert. Regions Wewill ...
12 Regions and land mosaics The urban region is a distinctive and increasingly important type of region. In this case a single m ...
Regions 13 (Warren1998,Atkinsonet al.1999,Ravetz2000,Steinitz and McDowell 2001, White2002,Register2006,Moore2007). Many challen ...
14 Regions and land mosaics people care about and care for the region. The combined threads of culture and ecology run deeply in ...
Regions 15 These flows emphasize that the city is also both a source and a sink. The city’s economic activity may depend on the ...
16 Regions and land mosaics Like any large area, an urban region is tightly linked to surrounding regions and to distant regions ...
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