This collection of case studies is in reference to the thesis developed by Graham and Marvin. Taken together, the articles seriously challenge the “splintering urbanism” thesis theoretically, empirically and methodologically. They question
Much new development is lost to geography as the subject splinters and creates new subdisciplines which become independent subjects. Can human ecology rescue geography ? - (AJC)
With regional land pools one hopes to bundle compensation and replacement measures which were formerly dispersed as splinter areas for a better effectiveness and to realize especially cultural landscape biotopes as well as to integrate their care
at the river mouth, vegetation colonization created marsh islands that splintered the river into distributaries. Examination of large-scale channel network geometry of such systems should therefore consider distributaries and blind tidal channels part