- 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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