Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

(Jacob Rumans) #1

  • 1Regions and land mosaics Acknowledgments xxi

    • Aframework

    • Termsand concepts to reveal urban regions

    • Regions

    • Land-mosaic perspective and landscape ecology

    • Spatial scales and their attributes



  • 2 Planning land

    • Planning and land management

    • Conservation planning

    • Planned cities

    • Urban-region planning



  • 3 Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns

    • Growth, regulatory, and ecological economics

    • Economics in time, space, and footprints

    • Social patterns

    • Culture



  • 4Natural systems and greenspaces

    • Ecosystem, community, and population ecology

    • Freshwater and marine coast ecology

      • Earth and soil viii Contents

      • Microclimate and air pollutants

      • Greenspaces



    • 5 Thirty-eight urban regions

      • Selecting cities, determining boundaries, mapping regions

      • Keyspatial attributes

      • Thirty-eight urban regions mapped

      • Place-name synopses of the regions

      • Broad patterns of the urban-region set



    • 6Nature, food, and water

      • Spatial analysis for patterns

      • Nature in urban regions

      • Food in urban regions

      • Waterinurban regions



    • 7 Built systems, built areas, and whole regions

      • Natural systems within and next to built areas

      • Built systems

      • Built areas

      • Whole regions



    • 8 Urbanization models and the regions

      • Land-change patterns and models

      • Four urbanization models

      • Models applied to case studies

      • Urbanization options evaluated with 18 attributes and 38 regions



    • 9 Basic principles for molding land mosaics

      • Patchsizes, edges, and habitats

      • Natural processes, corridors, and networks

      • Transportation modes

      • Communities and development

      • Land mosaics and landscape change





  • 10 The Barcelona Region’s land mosaic

    • Perspective and approach

    • Nature, food, and water

    • Built areas and systems

    • Three plan options for the region

    • Reflections two years later



  • 11 Gathering the pieces Contents ix

    • Settings and forms of urban regions

    • Ability to extrapolate the Barcelona solutions

    • Local communities, ecology, and planning

    • Good, bad, and interesting patterns in urban regions



  • 12 Big pictures

    • Garden-to-gaia, urban sustainability, disasters

    • Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity

      • sense of place Big-ideas--regulation--treaties--policy--governance, megacities,



    • Awakening to the urban tsunami

    • Appendices

    • References

    • Index

    • Color plate section can be found between pages 118 and



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