The Metacity: A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Ecology and Urban Design

We introduce the term metacity as a conceptual framework that can be shared by ecologists and designers and applied across the wide variety of urban habitats found around the world. While the term metacity was introduced by UN-HABITAT to designate hyper cities of over twenty million people, for us i...

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Main Authors: S. T. A. Pickett, Brian McGrath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-10-01
Series:Challenges
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/2/4/55/