Making Wild Cities. Notes on Participatory Urban (Re)Wilding.
“Does your city know where its lunch is coming from? And is that place healthy, or not?”
This means that urban wilding must be more than just improving access to nature: it involves redesigning our urban infrastructures to account for our non-human neighbours, so that we don’t just co-exist, but, more, that we are mutually supportive and generative.
By Usman Haque
https://uah.medium.com/making-wild-cities-notes-on-participatory-urban-re-wilding-8f6ff35cdd71
@corlin 💜
“The brutal fact is that either we change the way we live, or the local and geo-scale effects of the climate emergency will change our lives for us — we’ve already seen its effects resculpting the physical fabric of our cities, disrupting infrastructures we rely on, and substantially altering the social fabric of our cities as effects are felt to vastly different degrees by rich and poor. Wild cities are coming, one way or another.”
@CherNohio
Of course I agree.
What we need right now are stories, humans need stories to make sense of the world. We need lots of different stories about how living in a city could be, many different ways of thinking about it. Many possible futures, and no not the dystopias we see in movies. But real people living in cities that are interdependent with nature.
@corlin I’m encouraged with knowing in my own community how others are making progress with this concept. The stories are there but not always seen.