Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City Book

Foreword     xi
Foreword     xiii
Preface     xvii
Acknowledgments     xxi
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
Planning land     27
Planning and land management     27
Conservation planning     33
Planned cities     40
Urban-region planning     45
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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