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392 Index

metro area (cont.)

pattern for308--9,

312 --13, 192, 209

border 10 , 107, 108, 110

urbanization by208--9

determination 116 ,

117

development on 200

length 192 , 193, 194--5

patch near 110 , 192--3

tocity center 217 , 219,

347, 351

clean water upriver of

283--4

compact 183 , 184

cropland near 191 --2,

247

disaster in 181 , 188--9

ecological footprint for

65--6

economics in 61

and strip development

210

effects in 206

elongated 146 --7, 180 ,

184 --5

expansion 185

fire entering 320

form 114 , 115, 180, 183,

184 , 289

gaps near 148

greenspace 146 , 178,

179 , 195

land cover far/near

191 --2

land protection near 201

limited by greenspace

288

bymountain range 288

natural system in 65

parks in 146

patch/corridor in 177 --80

pattern for305--6

perimeter 180

planning of 183 --4

problem in 45

ringed by natural matrix

andsatellite cities 28 185 ,185,209

size 146 , 190, 191

and urban-region ring

width 288

squatter housing by 68

subdivided into sections

289

unbuilt space in 200

upriver of 111

urbanization in 210 --11,

289

and urban region 190 ,

215 , 290

and urban-region ring

189 --91, 283, 287--8,

316

without water-body 289

wetland by 289

see alsowedge

Mexico City

large natural area by 73

market-gardening by 77

as megacity 338

model for 212

regional emphasis of 12

urbanization207, 211 ,

214 , 215

see alsoColor Figure 22

microclimate 102 --5, 286

microhabitat25, 97, 231

migration36, 37, 92, 96, 97

mine 118 , 255--6, 257

mineral nutrient82, 84--5,

101 , 255, 257

mitigation59, 168 , 176, 177

stormwater 23

model

absence of 6

aggregate-with-outliers

151 , 188

forair pollution 48

biological 40

bulges200, 202, 220

compact-growth 64

concentric-zones

urbanization206,

208--9, 214 , 218, 220

corridor 204

forcost of growth 64

dispersed patches 204

dispersed sites

urbanization206,

210 --11, 214, 216,

218 , 220, 221--2,

347--8

donut7, 283--5, 287--8,

324--5

urbanization206,

210 --11, 214, 218,

220, 221--2

ecological and

environmental

economics 335

economic53, 56, 61 , 62

economic growth 335

edge 204

environmental

sensitivity 42

few-nuclei 204

forGBR, spatial247--8

generic 19

gravity200, 203

green wedge in 220

jaws 204

jaws-and-chunks204--5

journey-to-work 203

land change 199 --206

mosaic-sequence204--5,

211 , 220

MSCP 48

multi-nodal 203

multi-scale hierarchy of

hexagons 203

mutating economic 57