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Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities de Mary J Thornbush

Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities

Editat de Mary J Thornbush, Casey D. Allen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iul 2018
Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Citiesaddresses the human impacts on landscapes through occupation (urbanization) and development as a contribution to anthropogenic geomorphology or "anthropogeomorphology." This includes a focus on land clearance, conservation issues, pollution, decay and erosion, urban climate, and anthropogenic climate change. These topics, as well as others, are considered to shed more light on the human transformation of natural landscapes and the environmental impacts and geomorphological hazards that environmental change can encompass. Its multidisciplinary approach is appropriate for audiences from a range of disciplines and professions, from geologists, conservationists, and land-use planners to architects and developers.Urban Geomorphologynot only transcends disciplines, but also covers varied spatial-temporal frameworks and presents a diverse set of approaches and solutions to human impacts and geomorphological hazards within urban landscapes.


  • Features a cross-disciplinary perspective, highlighting the importance of the geosciences to environmental science, engineering, and public policy
  • Focuses on the built environment as the location of concentrated human impacts and change
  • Provides an international scope, including case studies from urban areas around the world
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780128119518
ISBN-10: 0128119519
Pagini: 362
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Public țintă

Primary: geologists, geomorphologists, earth scientists, physical geographers, environmental scientists, graduate students
Secondary: architects, engineers, urban planners, policymakers, governments

Cuprins

1. Introduction   Mary J. Thornbush and Casey D. Allen
Section 1: Paleogeomorphology and Archaeogeomorphology 2. Complex Interactions Among Geomorphological Hazards and Urban Evolution Since the Middle Age in a Mediterranean City   Joana Maria Petrus, Mauricio Ruiz-Pérez and Joan Estrany 3. Geotourism Development in an Urban Area Based on Local Geologic Heritage   Maria Gorska-Zabielska and Ryszard Zabielski 4. Archeogeomorphological evidences of Urban Sprawl and Anthropogeomorphological metamorphosis of Town Landscape on a Post-glacial area: Poznań   Zbigniew Zwolinski, Małgorzata Mazurek, Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke and Mirosław Makohonienko
Section 2: Anthropogeomorphology 5. Urban Stream Geomorphology and Salmon Repatriation in Lower Vernon Creek, British Columbia   Alexander MacDuff and Bernard Bauer 6. Landform Change Due to Airport Building   Piotr Migon
Section 3: Landscape Influences on Urban Growth 7. Environmental Contamination by Technogenic Deposits in the Urban Area of Araguaina, Brazil   Carlos Augusto Machado Sr. and Silvio Carlos Rodrigues 8. Transforming the Physical Geography of a City: An Example of Johannesburg, South Africa   Jasper Knight 9. New Conceptual Frameworks in Urban Design: When Design Meets Geomorphology   Paulina Espinosa
Section 4: Developing Geomorphological Hazards During the Anthropocene 10. Urban Geomorphology of an Arid City: Case Study of Phoenix, Arizona   Ronald Dorn 11. Bivouacs of the Anthropocene: Urbanization, Landforms and Hazards in Mountainous Regions   Kevin Gamache, John R. Giardino, Panshu Zhao and Rebecca Owens 12. A Dramatic, Geomorphologically Active Environment vs. a Dynamic, Rapidly Developing City   Monique Fort and Basanta Raj Adhikari
Section 5: Urban Stone Decay: Cultural Stone and its Sustainability in the Built Environment 13. Urban Stone Decay and Sustainable Built Environment in the Niger River Basin   Olumide Onafeso and Adeyemi Oludapo Olusola 14.  A Geologic Assessment of Historic St. Elizabeth Church Using the Cultural Stone Stability Index, Auraria Campus, Denver, Colorado   Casey D. Allen 15. Photographic technique used in a photometric approach to assess the weathering of pavement slabs in Toronto (Ontario, Canada)   Mary J. Thornbush 16. Conclusion   Mary J. Thornbush and Casey D. Allen

Descriere

Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities addresses the human impacts on landscapes through occupation (urbanization) and development as a contribution to anthropogenic geomorphology or "anthropogeomorphology." This includes a focus on land clearance, conservation issues, pollution, decay and erosion, urban climate, and anthropogenic climate change. These topics, as well as others, are considered to shed more light on the human transformation of natural landscapes and the environmental impacts and geomorphological hazards that environmental change can encompass. Its multidisciplinary approach is appropriate for audiences from a range of disciplines and professions, from geologists, conservationists, and land-use planners to architects and developers. Urban Geomorphology not only transcends disciplines, but also covers varied spatial-temporal frameworks and presents a diverse set of approaches and solutions to human impacts and geomorphological hazards within urban landscapes.

 

 

 

  • Features a cross-disciplinary perspective, highlighting the importance of the geosciences to environmental science, engineering, and public policy
  • Focuses on the built environment as the location of concentrated human impacts and change
  • Provides an international scope, including case studies from urban areas around the world