Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

Place-name synopses of the regions 127

one for drinking. Dust from Inner Mongolia. Ring roads. Summer Olympics. Air
pollution. Grid city. Mountain range. Friendly beloved dragons. Bicycles. (1999
pop.; 2000 image) (Sit1995,Guand Kesteloot1998,Chenet al.2004,Yang2004)

Berlin (Germany)
Brandenburg. Potsdam. Spreewald. Kostrzyn. Ruiner Canal. Naturpark.
Schwedt. Buch. River Oder. Kyritz. Baumgarten. Lindenberg. Frankfurt. Plan.
Petersdorf. Luckenwalde. Karlshof. Bad Saarow-Pieskow. Krausnicker Berge.
Waldstadt. Rathenow. Britz. Hammer. Blankenfelde. Bretzsee. Zixdorf. Poland to
east. France to west. The Wall, East and West. Industrial/agricultural collectives.
Sudgelande railroad exotics. Biotopes. Tiergarten transformations. (2001 pop.;
2000 image) (Sukopp and Werner1983,Sukopp and Hejny1990,vonStulpnagel
et al.1990,Goddeet al.1995,Breusteet al.1998,Kuhbler2000,Mauereret al.
2000,VonKrosigk 2001, Bahlburg2003,Girot2004,Rink2005,Pauleitet al.
2005,Kowarik and Langer2005)

Brasilia (Brazil)
The Cerrado. Lake Brasilia. Goiania. Anapolis. Serra Geral do Pasana.
Formosa. Luziania. Gama. Sobriadiaho. Barragem do Descoberto. Preto. Sao
Bartolomeu River. Planaltina. Corumba de Goias. Brazlandia. Padre Bernardo.
Mimoso. Lake Brasilia. Salto de Itiquira. Bom Sucesso. Rodeador Peak. Cd.
Eclectica. Pedra Fundamental. Bananal. Amazonas to north. Atlantic to east. Rio
de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to south. Planned city. (2000 pop.; 2001 image) (Epstein
1973,Starling2000,Hall2002,Oliveiraand Marquis2002)

Bucharest (Romania)
Carpethians. Danube River. Giurgiu. Buftea. Titu. Snagov. Ploiesti.
Oltenita. Slobozia. Ialomita River. Lake Dambovita. Ruse. Vedea River. Gaesti.
Cucurugu. Sarbeni de Jos. Dragomeresti Vale. Baleni Romani. Balotesti. Strandul
Titan. Fireta Mare. Dumbrava. Iszerul Mostistei. Baba Ana. Floreasca Park. Black
Sea and Ukraine to east. Serbia to west. Bulgaria to south. Clejani Gypsy music.
(2002 pop.; 2000 image)

Cairo (Egypt)
The Nile. Al-Qahira. Giza Pyramids. Suez Canal. Rosetta, the stone loca-
tion. The Fifth Aggregation. Heliopolis. Birket Qarum. El Faiyum. El Gharaq el
Sultani. Beni Suef. Crocadilopolis. Philadelphia. El Wasta. Sol. El Lisht. Garza.
The Sphinx. Saqqara. Warraq el Arab. Sadat City. Gebel Qatrani. Wadi el Natrun.
Kulet el Qrein. Great Bitter Lake. Isma’iliya Canal. Zagazig. Benha. Ramsis. Shibin