TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forman,Richard T.T.
TI  - Urban regions: ecology and planning beyond the city 
SN  - 9780511754982 (ebook)
AV  - QH541.15.L35 F67 2008
U1  - 307.1216 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Regional planning
KW  - City planning
KW  - Urban policy
KW  - Landscape protection
KW  - Landscape ecology
KW  - Urbanization
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Regions and land mosaics -- Planning land -- Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns -- Natural systems and greenspaces -- Thirty-eight urban regions -- Nature, food, and water -- Built systems, built areas, and whole regions -- Urbanization models and the regions -- Basic principles for molding land mosaics -- The Barcelona Region's land mosaic -- Gathering the pieces -- Big pictures
N2  - With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book combines urban planning and ecological science in examining urban regions. Writing for graduate students, academic researchers, planners, conservationists and policy makers, and with the use of informative urban-region color maps, Richard Forman analyzes 38 urban regions from 32 nations, including London, Chicago, Ottawa, Brasilia, Cairo, Seoul, Bangkok, Canberra, and a major case study of the Greater Barcelona region. Alternative patterns of urbanization spread (including sprawl) are evaluated from the perspective of nature and people, stating land-use principles extracted from landscape ecology, transportation and hydrology. Good, bad and interesting spatial patterns for creating sustainable land mosaics are pinpointed, and urban regions are considered in broader contexts, from climate change to biodiversity loss, disasters and sense of place
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511754982
ER  -