Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
Freshwater and marine coast ecology 97 Spivey 2002, Formanet al.2003,Jared2004,Frazer 2005).Peak f low,the max- imum height reac ...
98 Natural systems and greenspaces cover parts or all of these wetlands. Coastal wetlands, such as those formerly on theseaward ...
Earth and soil 99 with excessive organic matter and mineral nutrients. Major industrial centers with docks and shipping are usua ...
10 0Natural systems and greenspaces earth or soil. For example, sandy soils have more porosity, better drainage, more oxygen, an ...
Earth and soil 101 Silt-dominated soils and loamy soils (with a fairly even mixture of sand, silt, and clay) are particularly go ...
10 2Natural systems and greenspaces accumulations of many pollutants and toxins in the soil. Also residential septic systems and ...
Microclimate and air pollutants 103 Foranenvironmental condition such as temperature, an individual organ- ism has a somewhat na ...
10 4Natural systems and greenspaces movements, forms where streamline airflow is disrupted by abrupt boundaries, such as buildin ...
Greenspaces 105 (5) Sulfur oxides(SOX), which are especially produced by fossil-fuel burning industries and power plants, have s ...
10 6Natural systems and greenspaces central ecological and natural-systems values elucidated will be supplemented by pointing ou ...
Greenspaces 107 fewestspecies): sealed (asphalt) parking place; parking places (lot); river bank; intensive grassland (mowed); m ...
10 8Natural systems and greenspaces Table4.1Greenspaces forming broad- and fine-scale patterns in three major portions of an urb ...
Greenspaces 109 City and metropolitan area River corridors typically serve as a major infrastructure conduit for the city and ar ...
Built areas and systems water, reduce stormwater runoff, cool the building and air, and provide a bit of biodiversity (Hienet al ...
Greenspaces 111 Atafiner scale, a community garden provides family food, social benefits, and rich food for wildlife. A sewage-t ...
112Natural systems and greenspaces reservoirs may have little development ringing them so that semi-natural shorelines help main ...
5 Thirty-eight urban regions Selecting cities, determining boundaries, mapping regions What would you do if you wanted to unders ...
Thirty-eight urban regions mapped Edmonton Ottawa Chicago Philadelphia San Diego/ Atlanta Tijuana Mexico City Tegucigalpa Iquito ...
Selecting cities, determining boundaries, mapping regions 115 (2) Good- or adequate-quality satellite image of urban region avai ...
Nature in urban regions Bucharest, Edmonton, Iquitos [Peru], Moscow, Bangkok). The remaining 20 cities were selected to provide ...
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