Review of Wild Cities

Review of Wild Cities

I love architecture, but more than that, I love the planning of cities, the largest constructions that humans have ever created are found within cities, and without careful planning, those cities can easily become rat traps for humans, so this book was of particular interest to me.

Within are examples of 12 different cities and how they take a different approach to life in what they do.  There’s not enough space to go through all of them, so I’m going to take a small section.

Starting with Paris, where natural burial is now something being practise by more and more in an effort to reduce the pollutions caused by cremating everyone.

To Tokyo, a big city that’s practising the wholesome effects of having small forests spread throughout it at regular intervals in an effort to break up the grey sickness that too much concrete causes many people.

To Nairobi, where larger animals roam the streets freely and have developed an equilibrium with the people who live there.

And to Flagstaff in the US, where the night itself is protected by laws that prevent too many lumens being projected into the darkness in an effort to improve the quality of life for all concerned.

Fascinating book, being honest, it could have done with some illustrations or photos to demonstrate visually what these cities look like, but it was interesting nonetheless, I’d be interested to see another one of similar nature.

As always, thanks to the author for the free copy in return for the review, my opinions and words are my own, no incentive was offered or accepted.