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With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book, first published in 2008, 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.

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning The environment Applied ecology

• Full title: Urban Regions
• Author: Richard T T Forman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 478
• EAN: 9780521670760
• ISBN: 0521670764
• ID: 04399024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 826 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 174 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. June 2008

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