Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

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Index 387

landscape 142 --5, 147
resource conservation 34
urban 56
and urbanization 216
in urban-region ring
192
formand function 229
of urban region282--90
fragmentation35, 38, 39, 64
reduced233, 329
framework
of areas to protect 291
environmental issues
334
greenspace302, 304
land-use 245
tounderstand
urbanization203,
218
urban region ecology
and planning1--6
freshwater93--7, 99, 318 , 332
function/process229--32,
245


gap
or break 138 , 148
near city 149
conditions in/around
231
dynamics88--9
between emeralds 275
greenspace 331
between landscapes 145
wildlife movement and
231
garden2, 60, 315 --17
Gaudi, Antoni 180 , 243,see
Color Figure 40
GBR (Greater Barcelona
Region)
built area and built
system in260--8,
244--56, 274--81


planning project,
alternatives to
268--71, 273
genetic deficiency39--40,
89--91, 323
geographic area/region11,
12 , 113, 115
geography
economic 61
effect 154 , 169, 170, 171,
175 , 179, 182, 187,
194 , 195, 196,
197
urbanization and 219
global
air circulation 11
effect2, 316
ecology 81 --2
between local and 13
warming 326
government60, 277
centralized45--6, 49,
183 --4
city 44
control52, 53, 64
externality cost for 63
incentives, food growing
77
land 73
limitations on free
market 53
national-state-province
36
natural area understood
by 73
organization/group48,
247
and squatter housing 70
forurban region 336
and water demand 253
zoning by 62
gradient
environmental87--8,
232, 240, 288

of land value 237
urban-to-rural 88
grain
landscape of 251
-size of landscape or
land mosaic205,
240
grassland 111 , 119, 192, 300,
347, 348
and urbanization 216
Greater Barcelona Region,see
Barcelona
green
city 43
corridor 177 --80, 331
marketing80, 301
net261--2, 267, 269, 294,
296, 298
patch in metro area
177 --80
political party 335
ribbon250,see also
corridor, natural
roof 109 , 326
wedge,seewedge
greenbelt20, 39, 45, 110 ,
200, 220
Boston 46
in Boulder296--7
London 12 , 73
market-gardening in 77
greenhouse77, 251, 253, 276
decrease/increase83, 85
gas59--61, 104, 335
production 44
urban region source of
326
greenspace7--10, 56, 80--108,
112 ,see alsonatural,
park
access to7, 181 --3
air cooled by 166
foramenity/aesthetics13
in Boulder296, 297
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