Acute sensitivity is displayed toward urban ecology and toward the challenging measures required to enhance the quality of life, thus providing important lessons in environmental sustainability. The approach introduces a novel and innovative systematicity in context analysis to an American audience. The scope of the research is also worthy of merit, addressing a diversity of ecological issues such as improvement of water quality, mitigation of pollution, increasing biodiversity, nutrient cycling, enhancing soil formation, as well as controlling erosion.

A sensitive social agenda is also pursued at the level of providing environmentally responsive recreation amenities and improving public services. The integrity of urban form is enhanced by a self-organizing landscape that incorporates both media and biological processes in a synthesized ecosystem.