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020 _a9780511754982 (ebook)
020 _z9780521854467 (hardback)
020 _z9780521670760 (paperback)
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_beng
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_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aQH541.15.L35
_bF67 2008
082 0 4 _a307.1216
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100 1 _aForman, Richard T. T.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aUrban regions :
_becology and planning beyond the city /
_cRichard T.T. Forman.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2008.
300 _a1 online resource (xxii, 408 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aRegions 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.
520 _aWith 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.
650 0 _aRegional planning.
650 0 _aCity planning.
650 0 _aUrban policy.
650 0 _aLandscape protection.
650 0 _aLandscape ecology.
650 0 _aUrbanization.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521854467
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511754982
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