Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

388 Index

greenspace (cont.)

and built area structures

164 --6, 239

Chicago 12

between cities 332

in city275, 318

near city, large 261

cluster 179

in a community 46

corridors 178 , 221

todefine urban land

297

degradation 180 , 183,

195

of key 73

effect of losing 59

elongated 146

and flooding 166

large 103 , 107, 108, 165,

172 , 178, 183

linear 146 , 167

loss of58--9, 73

metro area and 178 , 179,

192 , 195, 288

natural 105 --6

and neighborhood 234

network 73

patches46, 178 , 206

forpeople 302

planning and protection

process7, 88, 186 ,

297, 301--4

in region 48

role of 105 --12, 166

small 107 , 108, 178--80

strip 235

tree and shrub cover in

327

wedge,seewedge

width of 116

greenways, regional system

or network of39,

46, 110 , 235,see also

corridor

groundwater

built area around 163

contaminated 324

deep 93

flow4, 8, 230

high nitrate level in255,

257

in Maresma274, 276

pollutants in 110 , 230

shallow 93

uses 333

water recharge to 334

forwater supply 160 --1,

163

growth

anticipation of 62

background resource

334

commercial 297

concentrated/dispersed 5

constraints on200, 263

and development260--1

economic 51 --2, 53, 54,

55, 59, 61 , 344

as big idea 334

exponential 89

market 199

intelligent 5

model, economic 335

of municipality, limited

261--2, 273

plant/crop 101

rateincrease 91

population 89

residents chose slow 297

location262, 273, 292

urban260--3

see alsomarket

gully255, 256, 257--8

habitat9, 27--8, 40, 225--9

arrangement 93

contrast 231

corridor as narrow 328

degraded38--9, 86,

329--30

diversity226, 241

edge 225

floodplain256, 258

forspecies 51

fragmentation233, 329

heterogeneity25--6, 86

human 238

isolated226, 22

interspersion 240

in planned town 299

removal, benefit from

330

restoration 147

species 303

structure 94

type 106 --7

underwater 98

health,seepublic

heat-island effect44, 100 ,

102 --3, 220, 326

herbivore82, 84, 87, 92, 327

hierarchical problem48--50,

239

hierarchy 272

of hexagons model 203

of nodes and routes 203

of priorities or emphasis

28

of roads and traffic 22

theory 19 , 242

with star-shaped nodes

203

highway22, 71 , 232--3, 264,

see alsoroad,

transportation

across Collserola274,

275

avoidance or

degradation zone by

23, 25, 171 , 233

as barrier/divider 171 ,

200, 233, 304