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pt. I. Framework -- 1. Foundations -- Urban ecology concept -- Urban attributes and ecological assays -- People and their activities -- Using urban ecology for society's solutions -- 2. Spatial patterns and mosaics -- Scale, human, and nature patterns -- Urban-rural gradient as spatial model -- Patch-corridor-matrix and other spatial models -- Neighborhood mosaics and their linkages -- Urban regions, metro areas, cities -- 3. Flows, movements, change -- Flows around boundaries and mosaics -- change-over-time principles -- Urbanization -- Rates and trajectories of ecological change -- pt. II. Ecological features -- 4. Urban soil and chemicals -- Key natural and human processes -- Soil texture an associated properties -- Life in the soil -- Urban soil chemicals -- The urban underground -- 5. Urban air -- Microclimate -- Energy and radiation -- Urban heat -- Diverse airflows -- Air pollutants and effects -- 6. Urban water systems -- Urban flows in the water cycle -- Groundwater -- Clean water supply -- Sewage and septic wastewater -- Stormwater and pollutants -- 7. Urban wetlands and pounds -- Constructed basins, ponds, wetlands, biofilters -- Urban streams -- Urban rivers -- Flooding by river and stream -- Urban coastal zones -- 8. Urban habitat, vegetation, plants -- Urban vegetation and habitat -- Urban plants -- Urban plant biology -- Trees and shrubs -- Plant community structure and dynamics -- Plants and urban habitat fragments -- 9. Urban wildlife -- Species types -- Vertical structures, vegetation layers, and animals -- Spatial habitat patterns and animals -- Wildlife movement -- Changing urban wildlife and adaptation -- pt. III. Urban features -- 10. Human structures -- Railways -- Roads and associated features -- Hard surfaces and cracks -- House plots, gardens, lawns -- Buildings -- 11. Residential, commercial, industrial areas -- City residential areas -- Suburban and peri-urban/exurban residential areas -- City center -- Commercial sites dispersed across the urban area -- Industrial areas -- 12. Green spaces, corridors, systems -- Urban agriculture -- Parks -- diverse large greenspaces -- Green corridors and networks -- Integrated urban greenspace system -- Appendix A. Positive and negative attributes of an urban area -- Appendix B. Equations.
Richard T.T. Forman, Harvard University, USA.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-443) and index.