Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
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 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...
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A pioneering book bulging with promising land patterns for students, planners, conservationists and policy makers.
Foreword xiForeword xiiiPreface xviiAcknowledgments xxiRegions and land mosaics 1A framework 1Terms and concepts to reveal urban regions 6Regions 11Land-mosaic perspective and landscape ecology 16Spatial scales and their attributes 18Planning land 27Planning and land management 27Conservation planning 33Planned cities 40Urban-region planning 45Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns 51Growth, regulatory, and ecological economics 51Economics in time, space, and footprints 59Social patterns 66Culture 73Natural systems and greenspaces 80Ecosystem, community, and population ecology 82Freshwater and marine coast ecology 93Earth and soil 99Microclimate and air pollutants 102Greenspaces 105Thirty-eight urban regions 113Selecting cities, determining boundaries, mapping regions 113Key spatial attributes 119Thirty-eight urban regions mapped 125Place-name synopses of the regions 125Broad patterns of the urban-region set 134Nature, food, and water 138Spatial analysis for patterns 138Nature in urban regions 142Food in urban regions 150Water in urban regions 155Built systems, built areas, and whole regions 164Natural systems within and next to built areas 165Built systems 168Built areas 177Whole regions 189Urbanization models and the regions 198Land-change patterns and models 199Four urbanization models 206Models applied to case studies 211Urbanization options evaluated with 18 attributes and 38 regions 215Basic principles for molding land mosaics 223Patch sizes, edges, and habitats 224Natural processes, corridors, and networks 229Transportation modes 232Communities and development 234Land mosaics and landscape change 239The Barcelona Region's land mosaic 243Perspective and approach 244Nature, food, and water 248Built areas and systems 260Three plan options for the region 268Reflections two years later 274Gathering the pieces 282Settings and forms of urban regions 282Ability to extrapolate the Barcelona solutions 290Local communities, ecology, and planning 295Good, bad, and interesting patterns in urban regions 304Big pictures 315Garden-to-gaia, urban sustainability, disasters 315Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity 325Big-ideas-regulation-treaties-policy-governance, megacities, sense of place 334Awakening to the urban tsunami 343Appendices 346References 352Index 380
\ From the Publisher'It should certainly inform practice around the world over the coming years and help to construct the intellectual arguments for much more effective big urban region planning, with much more intelligent ecological consciousness.' esrevs.co.uk\ '… an important contribution to the critically important debate about the future planning management of world cities at a time when their population will increase by 2 billion over the next 20 years. … a timely … attempt to demonstrate the significance of a spatial and ecological context to solving the problems that lie ahead.' Biologist\ 'Undoubtedly, the readers will be able to broaden and deepen their knowledge about the critical issues related to urban regions … a must-have addition not only for theorists but for practitioners, since the intellectual contents of this book could be very informative, practical and even more innovative when combined with their creativity.' Urban Studies Journal\ \ \
