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Cities and Nature illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. The city has been treated in most geographical writings as a primarily social phenomena, and at the same time, many environmental scientists have tended to ignore the urban. This book aims to reconnect natural science and social science through the examination of the urban environment. The growing environmental impact associated with increasing urbanization has shaped much urban public policy. The environmental dynamic of recent urban trends includes the impact of giant urban regions and megacities; postindustrial cities and brownfields, urban sprawl, new industrial spaces and shantytowns. Environmental disasters, and issues relating to pollution and garbage - as both a technical and social issue - for both large and small cities are also discussed.The possibilities of a green city, the environmental experience of cities through and across space, and the differences between cities in developed and developing economies are explored.

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