Question 1 of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study: How do the spatial structures of socio-economic, ecological, and physical features of an urban area relate to one another, and how do they change through time?
Data suggest that lifestyle classes are related to landscape structure. Image: Morgan Grove
Question 2 of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study:
What are the fluxes of energy, matter, and human, built, and social capital in an urban system; how do they relate to one another, and how do they change over the long term?
Question 3 of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study:
How can people develop and use an understanding of the metropolis as an ecological system to improve the quality of their environment, and to reduce pollution to downstream air and watersheds?
