Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

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384 Index


corridors (cont.)
with pearl, green 267
wooded 25
water-protection 302
cost4--5
externality55, 57, 63
of growth, model for 64
housing 62
of land 37
resource use/pollution
55, 58
saving by location 297
and water-scarcity255--6
cove98,see alsowedge
along coast 98
and lobe26, 287, 288
greenspace 183 , 287, 288
crisis4--5, 53, 237, 245, 344--5
cropland 111 , 119, 146,
150 --6, 174
as dominant land use
186 --8
matrix, metro area and
288
near metro area 191 --2
culture33, 44, 51 , 66--7,
73--8, 197 ,see also
socio-cultural
center238, 339
connection from 315 ,
334
and ecology 13 , 14
local and global 13
resource for44, 175
site preservation 35
symbol of 274
urban 12 , 294
cumulative
effect 19 , 26, 241, 247,
258, 266--7, 273
value at initial stage 281
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Figure 14
cyclone3, 98, 188 , 322

decision, tyranny of small
199
degradation
of biodiversity 206
of common land72--3
community ecosystem
226
in distant area 330
effect 168
of emerald330--1
environmental62, 69
habitat29, 329
humans and58--9, 66
of key piece 73
of protected area by city
73
or natural system4, 344
slowed environmental
345
due to urbanization 216
zone23, 104 , 233
densification9, 198 --9, 261
density
-dependent factor 89
human population68,
240, 324
of people and buildings
9, 20, 198 , 237
desert/desertified area 111 ,
119 , 120, 347, 349
and urbanization 216
in urban-region ring 192
design44, 60, 88, 183
biophilic 165 , 317
fine-scale 27
LEED approach 76
forlong term 241
nature and 13
forpeople 18
spatial attribute for67--8
detention basin, stormwater
23, 42, 97, 237
developed nation335, 338,
340--1

developing nation70, 75,
332, 338, 340
development260--3,see also
economic, strip,
sustainable,transit,
urbanization
area for260--1, 277
and community234--9
compact17, 62, 236, 237
concentrated or
dispersed,202, 235
constraint on 263
corridor 176
density 237
economic investment
200, 234--9
economics 62
on hill slope 321
with natural system 72
linked to existing204,
297
and low-ecological-value
area 235
location235--7, 297, 324
natural area for future
300
nature-gets-the-leftovers
301
in new urbanism, land
299
pattern307--8, 310 --11
between radial highways
185
relocation of328--9
residential17, 71
satellite city and60, 296
spread of built area
234--9
stimulation of 62
sustainability60, 335
directionality 289
disaster42, 64, 181 , 188--9,
236, 315 , 319--25
disease 324
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