Good, bad, and interesting patterns in urban regions 313Abundance of small, linear greenspaces in metro area.San Diego/Tijuana,
Brasilia, Bamako, Seoul
Long narrow metro area.Miami, Piura (Peru), Ulaanbaatar
Regularly distributed villages over much of region.Bahawalpur (Pakistan),
Xi’an (China)
Total built-area border length in urban region largely due to towns.Barcelona,
Abeche, Erzurum, Rahimyar Khan
Considerable built-area border length in urban region due to satellite cities.San
Diego/Tijuana, Bucharest
Only one satellite city, or none, in urban region.Abeche, Edmonton, Erzurum,
Iquitos
Satellite cities mainly in inner urban-region ring.Seoul, Barcelona, Bangkok,
Berlin, Kuala Lumpur, London
Satellite cities mainly in outer urban-region ring.Bucharest, Mexico City,
Rome
Parallel ridges and valleys with streams slicing through metro area.Birming-
ham (USA)
Most of metro area with a fairly regular grid of streets/roads.Beijing, Min-
neapolis/St. Paul (USA), San Antonio (USA), Xi’an (China), Toronto
Ring of regional shopping malls distributed near metro-area border.Boston
Nature, forest/woodland, food production, and water
Only large forest/woodland area in region largely protected for recre-
ation/biodiversity. Edmonton
Many gaps and narrow connections present between natural landscapes.Berlin,
Kagoshima, Sapporo
Large wildlife park next to city providing greenspace and recreation/tourism
values.Nairobi
Verylittle forest/woodland present mainly due to grassland or desert climate.
Abeche, Buenos Aires, Amarillo (USA), Erzurum, Jodhpur (India),
Tehran
Wooded area present is concentrated near metro-area border.Barcelona
Region with prominent large agricultural fields resulting from recent several-
decade policy.Berlin, Bucharest, Moscow
Nearest cropland landscapes far from city center.Nairobi, Abeche
Agricultural land overwhelmingly surrounds streams and rivers. Sapporo,
Bucharest, Mexico City, Cairo, Edmonton
Distant water supply.Nairobi,Santiago
Wat er supply depending on a canal(s).Berlin, Moscow