Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity 331 where one can harvest resources, even colonize, if hard times arrive. Eme ...
332 Big pictures greenspace interruption to facilitate crossing by wildlife. Particular effort for maintaining species connectiv ...
Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity 333 prices for scarce water are a serious economic problem for industry aroun ...
334 Big pictures theland, thus reducing water recharge into the groundwater. That commonly results in contaminated water and a l ...
Big-ideas, governance, megacities, sense of place 335 From the 1960s to 1990s a whole set of issues -- wetlands, wolves, foaming ...
336 Big pictures pattern as a generally more promising and lasting approach. If a particular land use or mosaic of land uses mak ...
Big-ideas, governance, megacities, sense of place 337 buildings were mostly eliminated, and people basically lived either in ind ...
338 Big pictures (6) Contracts between separate governments: addresses specialized issues/ functions, provides economy of scale, ...
Big-ideas, governance, megacities, sense of place 339 Figure 12.3Beloved dragons and ball in Beijing’s ‘‘Forbidden City”, the ac ...
340 Big pictures Megacity transportation for the huge population also poses numerous prob- lems, from streets clogged with pedes ...
Big-ideas, governance, megacities, sense of place 341 maintenance of greenspaces. Zoning and controls on urbanization may be eff ...
342 Big pictures century or so ago farmland with distinctive rural towns mostly surrounded the city, but now they have largely c ...
Awakening to the urban tsunami be central for some of us (Jackson 1994, Karr 2002, Orr 2002, Yu and Padua 2006). In short, a str ...
344 Big pictures vegetation is removed, and key habitats are fragmented and degraded, all wor- risome trends for society’s ecosy ...
Awakening to the urban tsunami 345 means continuing in a downward or worsening trajectory. ‘‘Entropy increases.” ‘‘ The second l ...
Appendix I Mapping procedure for satellite images Five steps comprise the mapping procedure for satellite images of the 38 urban ...
Appendix II Urbanization models evaluating 18 attributes in 38 regions Four alternative spatial models (Figure 8.2) were superim ...
Urban regions London Berlin Rome Bucharest Stockholm Barcelona Nantes Chicago San Diego/Tij’a Philadelphia Ottawa Edmonton Portl ...
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(cont.) Urban regions London Berlin Rome Bucharest Stockholm Barcelona Nantes Chicago San Diego/Tij’a Philadelphia Ottawa Edmont ...
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