Ecological Signatures: The Science of Sustainable Urban Forms

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Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 56-60

  Alberti, Marina ^a  

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2. See, for example, Peter Calthorpe, The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993)
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4. Randall Crane and Richard Crepeau, "Does Neighborhood Design Influence Travel? A Behavioral Analysis of Travel Diary and GIS Data,"' Institute of Transportation Studies, Center for Activity Systems Analysis, University of California, Irvine, 1998
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7. and M. Alberti, "The Effects ot Urban Patterns on Ecosystem Function," International Regional Science Review, 28 (2005), pp. 168-92
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14. The UERL Team involved in the study of ecological signatures of urban development involves several research associates and assistants, including L. Hutyra, S. Walters, S. Coe, D. Spirandelli, Y. Jang, M. Russo, and K. Puruncajas, See Alberti et al, "Integrating Humans into Ecosystems."
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16. Land use data at the parcel level were obtained from the Ring and Snohomish County assessor offices. Land cover data were interpreted from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery for the Puget Sound region for 1998. Landscape metrics were measured with Fragstats 3.1. K. McGarigal, S.A. Cusbman, M.C. Neel, and E. Ene, Spatial Pattern Analysis Program tor Categorical Maps, 2002., www, umass.edu/Iandeco/research/fragstats/fragstats.html
17. and M. Alberti, D. Booth, K. Hill, C. Avolio, B. Coburn, S. Coe, and D. Spirandelli, "The Impact of Urban Patterns on Aquatic Ecosystems: An Empirical Analysis in Puget Lowland Sub-Basins," Landscape and Urban Planning, Vol. 80, No. 4 (2007)
18. Alberti et al., "The Impact of Urban Patterns on Aquatic Ecosystems."
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20. and C.P. Konrad, D.B. Booth, S.J. Burges, and D.R. Montgomery, "Partial Entrainment of Gravel Bars During Floods," Water Resources Research, 38 (2002), pp. 9.1-9.16
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23. M. Alberti et al, "Urban Landscape Patterns: Complex Dynamics and Emergent Properties."