Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City Wilson Ben
A lush history of the love/hate relationship between nature and the city, and an inspiring argument that the natural world may prove to be the city's saviorIn this verdant follow-up to Metropolis, his…
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A lush history of the love/hate relationship between nature and the city, and an inspiring argument that the natural world may prove to be the city's saviorIn this verdant follow-up to Metropolis, his seven-thousand-year history of people's relationship to the city, Ben Wilson explores our long-held desire to control and contain nature within our cities, from the earliest efforts in our first cities to wall nature out, to the Roman ideal of nature in the city, to our most magnificent and beloved but quite artificial city parks.Today, cities are the fastest-growing type of habitat on Earth, a seeming disaster for the planet as they gobble up the deltas, rainforests, woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands where we like to site our cities. In Urban Jungle, Wilson looks to the history of nature and the city for clues to how cities--and the planet--can survive. He
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