Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Imhoff, Marc L.

Titel

Ecology of Cities and Towns

Ist Teil von

• BioScience, 2010, Vol.60 (10), p.852-854

Ort / Verlag

Circulation, AIBS, 1313 Dolley Madison Blvd., Suite 402, McLean, VA 22101. USA: American Institute of Biological Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• S omewhere around 3500 BP, humans began to build structures we now commonly refer to as cities and towns. [...] human settlements have evolved into ever larger and more complex entities eclipsing simple architecture and emerging as quasibiological entities, complete with their own growth patterns and metabolic processes.