With more than 50% of the world s population already living in towns and cities, migration from rural areas continuing at an alarming rate in developing countries and suburbanisation using more and more land in developed countries, the urban environment has become supremely important with regard to human health and wellbeing. For centuries, urbanisation has caused relatively low level soil conta- nation mainly by various wastes. However, from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards, both the scale of urban development and the degree of soil contamination rapidly increased and involved...

Am Beispiel eines der ltesten Industriegebiete der Welt wird hier die gro e Vielfalt anthropogen gepr gter Stadt- und Industrieb den dargestellt. Besonderes Gewicht legen die Autoren auf die diversen, die Pflanzenwuchseignungen beeinflussende Bodenparameter. F r stadtplanerische Anforderungen sind dabei Bewertungsschemata zum Schutz von Stadtb den integriert. Dar ber hinaus wird die Schadstoffbelastungssituation und das dazugeh rige kologische bzw. humantoxikologische Gef hrdungspotential typisch urbaner Standorte aufgezeigt. F r bedarfsorientierte, stadtplanerische Abw gungen wird in...

With more than 50% of the world s population already living in towns and cities, migration from rural areas continuing at an alarming rate in developing countries and suburbanisation using more and more land in developed countries, the urban environment has become supremely important with regard to human health and wellbeing. For centuries, urbanisation has caused relatively low level soil conta- nation mainly by various wastes. However, from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards, both the scale of urban development and the degree of soil contamination rapidly increased and involved...