Richard T T Forman

Towns, Ecology, and the Land

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering book highlighting the dynamic environmental dimensions of towns and villages and spatial connections with surrounding land.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 598
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 191mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9781316648605
• ISBN-10: 1316648605
• Artikelnr.: 54311031

Autorenporträt

Richard T. T. Forman is Research Professor in Landscape Ecology at Harvard University, Massachusetts, where he teaches Urban and Town Ecology. Often considered a 'father' of Landscape Ecology and Road Ecology, he helped spearhead Urban Ecology, and has received honours, awards, medals and honorary doctorates from universities across the world. His books include Landscape Ecology (1986), award-winning Land Mosaics (Cambridge, 1995), Urban Regions (Cambridge, 2008) and award-finalist Urban Ecology (Cambridge, 2014). He received an award for excellence in teaching, and has served for many years on boards for town planning and land-protection non-profit organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Town Patterns
Processes
Change: 1. Town
village
and land spatial patterns; 2. Flows and movements; 3. Change; 4. Human dimensions; Part II. Ecological Dimensions of Towns: 5. Soil
chemicals
air; 6. Water systems and waterbodies; 7. Plants
habitats
greenspaces; 8. Diverse animals and town pattern; Part III. Town and Land Interactions: 9. Commercial
industrial
and residential areas; 10. Cropland
pastureland
and towns; 11. Forestland
aridland
and towns; 12. Tying transportation
towns
and land together; Part IV. Town Ecology Principles and Solutions: 13. Toward better towns
better land.