Urban Geomorphology

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

Geologists, geomorphologists, earth scientists, physical geographers, environmental scientists, graduate students. Architects, engineers, urban planners, policymakers, governments

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, Basanta Raj Adhikari, and Bhagawat Rimal

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