Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and NatureJohn Marzluff, Eric Shulenberger, Wilfried Endlicher, marina Alberti, Gordon Bradley, Clare Ryan, Craig ZumBrunnen, Ute Simon to a Research Project Ernest W. Burgess Abstract The aggregation of urban population has been described by Bücher and Weber. A soc- logical study of the growth of the city, however, is concerned with the de nition and description of processes, as those of (a) expansion, (b) metabolism, and (c) mobility. The typical tendency of urban growth is the expansion radially from its central business district by a series of concentric circles, as (a) the central business district, (b) a zone of deterioration, (c) a zone of workingmen’s homes, (d)a residential area, and (e) a commuters’ zone. Urban growth may be even more fundamentally stated as the resultant of processes of organization and disorganization, like the anabolic and katabolic processes of metabolism in the human body. The distribution of population into the natural areas of the city, the division of labor, the differentiation into social and cultural groupings, represent the normal manifestations of urban metabolism, as statistics of disease, crime, disorder, vice, insanity, and suicide are rough indexes of its abnormal expression. The state of metabolism of the city may, it is suggested, be measured by mobility, de ned as a change of movement in response to a new stimulus or situation. Areas in the city of the greatest mobility are found to be also regions of juvenile delinquency, boys’ gangs, crime, poverty, wife desertion, divorce, abandoned infants, etc. |
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Contents
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Differences in the use of Urban | 49 |
Conceptual Foundations of Urban Ecology | 67 |
Linking Terrestrial Ecological Physical | 94 |
Integrated Approaches to LongTerm Studies of Urban | 123 |
Opportunities and Challenges for Studying | 142 |
The Atmosphere Hydrosphere and Pedosphere | 159 |
Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Urbanizations Impacts on Fish | 425 |
Influences of Human Modification of Habitat | 455 |
Human Dimensions | 473 |
Forecasting Demand for Urban Land | 493 |
A Literature Review | 519 |
Why Cities Cannot be Sustainableand Why They | 537 |
Health Supportive Environments and the Reasonable Person Model 557 | 556 |
Megacities as Global Risk Areas | 583 |
The Moral Economy | 180 |
Streams in the Urban Landscape | 207 |
The Urban Climate Basic and Applied Aspects 233 | 232 |
Global Warming and the Urban Heat Island | 249 |
A Retrospective Assessment of Mortality from the London Smog Episode | 263 |
The Biosphere | 279 |
Ecosystem Processes Along an UrbantoRural Gradient | 299 |
Rapid Evolution of Races in North America | 315 |
Socioeconomics Drive Urban Plant Diversity | 339 |
How Extinction and Colonization | 353 |
A LongTerm Survey of the Avifauna in an Urban Park | 373 |
Does Differential Access to Protein Influence Differences in Timing of Breeding | 390 |
Creating a Homogeneous Avifauna | 405 |
Why Is Understanding Urban Ecosystems Important to People Concerned About | 597 |
Thomas Dietz Elinor Ostrom Paul C Stern | 623 |
Scientific Institutional and Individual Constraints on Restoring Puget Sound Rivers | 647 |
Shifts in the Core and the Context of Urban Forest | 660 |
What Is the Form of a City and How Is It Made? | 677 |
What Should an Ideal City Look Like from an Ecological View? Ecological Demands | 691 |
Terrestrial Nature Reserve Design at the UrbanRural Interface | 715 |
A General | 738 |
A Straightforward Approach | 757 |
A New Planning Concept for the Environment | 782 |
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| Title | Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature |
| Editors | John Marzluff, Eric Shulenberger, Wilfried Endlicher, marina Alberti, Gordon Bradley, Clare Ryan, Craig ZumBrunnen, Ute Simon |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0387734120, 9780387734125 |
| Length | 808 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development Political Science / Public Policy / Regional Planning Science / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity Science / Life Sciences / Botany Science / Life Sciences / Ecology |
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