This was an entertaining and informative read. I found myself sharing what I learned from this book with those around me. I recommend it to fans of good and highly readable non-fiction.

A fascinating foray into the relationship, however fraught, between urban areas and nature.

The author interweaves both history and modern practice as he considers various aspects of the urban/nature relationship: the dramatic expansion of the wildland-urban interface as urbanity spreads; plants and urban areas; animals and urban areas; wetlands and water flows and urban areas; invasive plants and animals; and the prospect of greater greening of cities.

The author demonstrates how cities already are biodiversity hotspots and have the significant potential to develop into greater such places if cities are better engineered to be open and receptive to flora and fauna. He points out the health benefits of doing so and how cities historically have been much more interconnected with nature, wild and domesticated.

Very interesting and insightful and worth considering.

Urban Jungle takes a look at the relationship between nature and the city and how humans have been changing their environment to suit their modernizing urban needs. As more of the population become city-dwellers, the more the landscape and ecology have had to change to support them. While this can increase biodiversity in some areas, it can also cause disruptions in natural cycles leading to many of the disastrous climate change effects we see today. Wilson makes the case for re-introducing nature back into cities and finding ways to rebalance nature or at at the very least not cause so many disruptions in the cycles. A thought-provoking subject that will have readers thinking more about what they can do to minimize their impact on the environment and work on ways to encourage productive natural spaces.

A passionate book that resonates well as a mild lesson in hope, while educating the reader without talking down to them. It made me want to familiarize myself with Metropolis, Wilson's other work, which can only ever be meant as praise. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an opportunity with this title.