Hence the main focus of sustainable urbanism lies on the design of urban environments and aims to implement sustainable solutions through these designs.
Despite the expansion of urban environments, few studies have examined the influence of urbanization on faunal diversity, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.
Billboard ads have long been a feature of urban environments.
Mumford traced the evolution of urban environments from medieval times to modern ones and came out unimpressed with the present.
Jacobs' views on the spontaneous self-organisation of urban environments anticipated modern work on ecosystems and other natural "complex systems".
The ferocious conflict in Syria, in which methodical starvation and the systematic destruction of urban environments are deployed as strategies, is an example of this type of warfare.
For the first time, Ridge Racer moves away from traditional racing, instead concentrating on vehicle combat and destruction of urban environments, although some defining elements do remain.
"These are very basic things, but they have a huge influence on the vitality of urban environments and what takes place within them".
This has traditionally kept them out of urban environments, because the remaining forest fragments simply weren't large enough to support them.
But they do more than provide a fleeting glimpse of China today; exaggerated colors and tight cropping that emphasizes the distorted scale of urban environments encourages us to look closely at and try to understand our surroundings.
As ecologists have come to accept the "impure" nature of urban environments, they have been re-evaluating the role of exotic plants, imported species that have traditionally been regarded as noxious, aggressive pests crowding out native North American species.
