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
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