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Book SynopsisIn this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city's savior
Illuminating...Wilson leaves readers with hope about the future of efforts to preserve the ecosystems that surround us, as well as a new perspective that looks beyond the concrete and asphalt when walking along a city’s streets.—Associated PressSince the beginning of civilization, humans have built cities to wall nature out, then glorified it in beloved but quite artificial parks. In
Urban Jungle Ben Wilson—the author of
Metropolis, a seven-thousand-year history of cities that the
Wall Street Journal called “a towering achievement”—looks to the fraught relationship between nature and the city for clues to how the planet can survive in an age of climate crisis.
Whether it was the market farmers of Paris, Germans in med
