Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

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130 Thirty-eight urban regions


Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Straits of Malacca. Klang. Petaling Jaya. Secemban. Genting Highlands.
Temerloh. Raub. Port Dickson. Karak. Bentong. Sabak Bernam. Slim. Melaka. Gn.
Benom. Tembeling River. Kuala Selangor. Sri Menanti. Batu Caves. Taman Negara
Park. Mah Meri Orang Asli. Pelabuhan Klang. Blue Lagoon. Kg. Jawi-jawi. Java
and Indonesia to southwest. South China Sea to east. Tallest building. Active
rainforest canopy. Oil palm snakes. (2000 pop.; 2001 image) (Rieley and Page
1995)

London (UK)
TowerBridge. Westminster. Thames River. Slough. Windsor Castle. Luton.
Heathrow. Weston-on-the-Sea. Cambridge. Bishop’s Stortford. Ascot. Aldershot.
King George V Reservoir. Canterbury Cathedral. Isle of Grain. Sevenoaks Weald.
Letherhead. Kew Gardens. Brent. Wimbledon. Harrow. Oxford. Eel Brook Com-
mon. Paddington station. Letchworth. Bradwell defuelled. Central congestion-
control zone. The London Ring Main. Doubledecker buses. Elizabeth. Greenbelt.
1666 Great Fire. (2001 pop.; 2000 image) (Davis 1976 , Munton1983,Gilbert 1991 ,
Turner1992,Bartuska1994,Parsons and Schuyler2000,Ishikawa2001,Howe
2002,Hall2002)

Mexico City (Mexico)
Toluca. Cuernavaca. Pueblo. Pachuca. Sierra Nevada. Ajusco. Texmelu-
can. Volcan Popocatepetl. Volcan Iztaccihuatl. Guadaloupe Zaragoza. Teotihua-
can. Calpulalpan. Apan. Laguna Tecocomulco. Tula. Ecatepec. Coacalco. Villa de
Carbon. Cuantlan. Tlanepantla Ocampo. Jilotepec de Molina. Xochimilco. Mina
Vieja. Santa Cruz. Contreras. Milpa Alta. San Juan Ixtayopan. Cerro Cervantes.
Santa Barbara. Barranca Grande. Llano Grande. La Finca. Parque A. de Humboldt.
Cerro El Coyote. (2002 pop.; 2000 image) (Rapoport1993,Losadaet al.1998,
Pezzoli1998,Hall2002)

Moscow (Russia)
Obninsk. Moskva River. Sergiev Posad. Stupino. Klin. Pokrov. Elektostal.
Losiny Ostrov National Park. Vodokhraqnilishche. Dmitrov. Izmaylovsky Lesopark.
Troize-Sergieva Lavra. Kremlin. Klimkinskoe. Nudol. Krasnobogatyrskaya. Mow.
Bittsa. Balashikha. Ruza. Biryulevsky Dendropark. Archangelskoe. Domodedova.
Oka River. Mytisci. Cehov. Ukraine to south. Belarus to west. Finland and Barents
Sea to north. Two-lane outer ring road. Weekend dachas. (2002 pop.; 2002 image)
(Barker and Sutcliffe1993)
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