Forman R.T.T. Urban regions: ecology and planning beyond the city. - Cambridge; New York: Cambridge univ. press, 2008. - xxii, 408 p. [43] p. of plates: ill., maps. - Bibliogr.: p.352-379. - Ind.: p.380-408. - ISBN 978-0-521-67076-0  Место хранения:   02 | Отделение ГПНТБ СО РАН | Новосибирск

Оглавление / Contents

Foreword ....................................................... xi Foreword ..................................................... xiii Preface ...................................................... xvii Acknowledgments ............................................... xxi 1 Regions and land mosaics ..................................... 1 A framework .................................................. 1 Terms and concepts to reveal urban regions ................... 6 Regions ..................................................... 11 Land-mosaic perspective and landscape ecology ............... 16 Spatial scales and their attributes ......................... 18 2 Planning land ............................................... 27 Planning and land management ................................ 27 Conservation planning ....................................... 33 Planned cities .............................................. 40 Urban-region planning ....................................... 45 3 Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns ............. 51 Growth, regulatory, and ecological economics ................ 51 Economics in time, space, and footprints .................... 59 Social patterns ............................................. 66 Culture ..................................................... 73 4 Natural systems and greenspaces ............................. 80 Ecosystem, community, and population ecology ................ 82 Freshwater and marine coast ecology ......................... 93 Earth and soil .............................................. 99 Microclimate and air pollutants ............................ 102 Greenspaces ................................................ 105 5 Thirty-eight urban regions ................................. 113 Selecting cities, determining boundaries, mapping regions .. 113 Key spatial attributes ..................................... 119 Thirty-eight urban regions mapped .......................... 125 Place-name synopses of the regions ......................... 125 Broad patterns of the urban-region set ..................... 134 6 Nature, food, and water .................................... 138 Spatial analysis for patterns .............................. 138 Nature in urban regions .................................... 142 Food in urban regions ...................................... 150 Water in urban regions ..................................... 155 7 Built systems, built areas, and whole regions .............. 164 Natural systems within and next to built areas ............. 165 Built systems .............................................. 168 Built areas ................................................ 177 Whole regions .............................................. 189 8 Urbanization models and the regions ........................ 198 Land-change patterns and models ............................ 199 Four urbanization models ................................... 206 Models applied to case studies ............................. 211 Urbanization options evaluated with 18 attributes and 38 regions .................................................... 215 9 Basic principles for molding land mosaics .................. 223 Patch sizes, edges, and habitats ........................... 224 Natural processes, corridors, and networks ................. 229 Transportation modes ....................................... 232 Communities and development ................................ 234 Land mosaics and landscape change .......................... 239 10 The Barcelona Region's land mosaic ......................... 243 Perspective and approach ................................... 244 Nature, food, and water .................................... 248 Built areas and systems .................................... 260 Three plan options for the region .......................... 268 Reflections two years later ................................ 274 11 Gathering the pieces ....................................... 282 Settings and forms of urban regions ........................ 282 Ability to extrapolate the Barcelona solutions ............. 290 Local communities, ecology, and planning ................... 295 Good, bad, and interesting patterns in urban regions ....... 304 12 Big pictures ............................................... 315 Garden-to-gaia, urban sustainability, disasters ............ 315 Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity ......... 325 Big-ideas-regulation-treaties-policy-governance, megacities, sense of place ................................. 334 Awakening to the urban tsunami ............................. 343 Appendices .................................................... 346 References .................................................... 352 Index ......................................................... 380 Color plate section can be found between pages 122 and 123