Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

Table

5.1

Statistics for the thirty-eight urban regions analyzed. P/A = perimeter to area; L/W = length to width. See Figure

5.1

map.

City (Nation)

Populationof city

Latitude◦()

Elevation(m)

Tem

perature

◦(C)

Precipitation(cm)

Metroperimeter(km)

Metro area(km

2 )

Metro P/Aratio

Metro L/Wratio

EUROPELondon (UK)

7 127 000

52N

5

11.1

59

381

1 672

0.23

1.5

Berlin (Germany)

3 388 000

52N

50

9.4

56

221

905

0.24

1.9

Rome (Italy

)2

733 000

42N

115

16.1

65

155

388

0.4

1.6

Bucharest (Romania)

1 922 000

44N

82

10.9

58

105

286

0.37

1.2

Stockholm (Sweden)

1 850 000

59N

44

6.1

57

183

500

0.37

1.7

Barcelona (Spain)

1 527 000

41N

95

15.7

60

97

219

0.44

1.6

Nantes (France)

278 000

47N

30

12.3

79

87

171

0.51

1.3

NORTH

AMERICA

Chicago (USA)

2 896 000

42N

185

10.6

84

748

3 993

0.19

1.4

SanDiego/Tijuana

(USA/Mexico)

2 373 000

33N

4

17.2

25

354

1 138

0.31

1.7

Philadelphia (USA)

1 518 000

40N

2

12.4

104

538

2 459

0.22

1.4

Ottawa (Canada)

774 000

45N

79

6.3

73

133

372

0.36

1.8

Edmonton (Canada)

616 000

54N

656

2.6

44

176

550

0.32

1.3

Po

rtland (USA)

529 000

46N

9

12.8

101

325

1 325

0.25

1

Atlanta (USA)

416 000

34N

307

16.1

120

707

3 133

0.23

1.1

LATIN

AMERICA

Mexico City (Mexico)

8 590 000

19N

2231

15.6

58

287

1 606

0.18

1.5

Santiago (Chile)

4 668 000

33S

529

14.1

36?

219

525

0.42

1.3

Brasilia (Brazil)

2 051 000

16S

1061

21.3

154

248

478

0.52

2

Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

820 000

14N

1004

20

94

51

81

0.63

1.3

Iquitos (Peru)

368 000

4S

116

25

274

68

85

0.8

5.8

(cont

.)