Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City

In 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.

Since 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 re...