TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forman,Richard T.T.
TI  - Urban regions: ecology and planning beyond the city 
SN  - 9780521670760 (pbk.)
U1  - 307.1216 FOR 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Landscape ecology
KW  - Landscape protection
KW  - Case studies
KW  - City planning
KW  - Regional planning
KW  - Urban policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-379) and index; 1. Regions and land mosaics
2. Planning land
3. Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns
4. Natural systems and greenspaces
5. Thirty-eight urban regions
6. Nature, food, and water
7. Built systems, built areas, and whole regions
8. Urbanization models and the regions
9. Basic principles for molding land mosaics
10. The Barcelona Region's land mosaic
11. Gathering the pieces
12. Big pictures
N2  - "Natural systems and their human uses are of central importance in urban regions, where diverse greenspaces and built spaces of essentially value spatially intertwine. 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 compares 38 urban regions from 32 nations, including London, Chicago, Ottawa, Brasilia, Cairo, Beijing, 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, and land-use principles extracted from landscape ecology, transportation, and hydrology are stated. 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."--BOOK JACKET
UR  - http://openisbn.com/isbn/0521670764/
ER  -