Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

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Index


Abeche, Chad 115 , 163,see
Color Figure 2
adaptability59--60, 198 , 237,
245, 270--2
adaptation90--1
administrative unit37--8,
183 --4, 196 , 197
aerosol 103 , 105, 334
aesthetics33, 75, 238, 276,
301
in city design 41 --2, 43
aggregation,seecluster
agricultural
areas 111 , 152, 293
economics 62
land in urban-region
ring 155 , 187, 190--1
landscape5, 24, 45,
151 --2, 251--2, 272,
293
threat to279--80
woods/fields in 154
runoff 96
agriculture 119 , 150--2, 332,
see alsocropland,
farmland,market,
urban
-nature park77, 252,
268, 272, 276, 291
urban,seeurban
air 11
cooling 104 , 157, 166

ecology99--102
pollution8, 44, 48,
102 --5, 203, 265,
323, 335
quality48, 110 , 116,
120
aircraft 121 , 172--6, 324
airports 116 , 118, 121, 172--6,
276
allotment /garden92, 111 ,see
alsocommunity
amenity, ecological criteria
301
Anoia area, Lower261, 264,
265, 269
aquaculture77, 78
aquatic
biologist253, 255, 257
ecosystem94, 269
habitat, degraded 24
aquifer8, 93, 159 , 161, 231,
274
importance 274
surface covering56, 93
pollutants and
protection254, 333
architecture 13 , 41, 76, 277,
329
area5, 8, 52--4
disaster/extreme
weather321, 324,
329

growth/development
260--1
locality-centered region
302
receiving city output 319
forwaste assimilation
65--6
Atlanta, USA46, 192 , 213--15,
206,seeColor
Figure 3
atmosphere 102 --5,see alsoair
atmospheric cell 11
Australia 13 , 114, 115, 171,
202
avoidance zone23, 171 , 233

Bamako, Mali 163 ,seeColor
Figure 4
Bangkok68, 202, 321,see
Color Figure 5
Barcelona Catalunya, Spain
114 , 244,seeColor
Figure 6
agricultural park by77,
176
building in 41
distinctive feature in
245--6
greenspace in 206
highway overpass near

380

highway overpass near
295
land protection near 201
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