1. Regions and land mosaics; 2. Planning land; 3. Economic dimensions and social 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 options; 9. Basic principles for molding land mosaics; 10. The Barcelona region's land mosaic; 11. Gathering the pieces; 12. Big pictures.
This book is bulging with promising land patterns for students, planners, conservationists and policy makers.
Richard T. T. Forman is currently Harvard University's PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University, is an AAAS Fellow and has received the Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence.
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