Marseille wild city : essay on urban ecology - Baptiste Lanaspeze

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Summary :

When the dominant models collapse, it is often at the margins that we see the future taking shape. Here, we never know where the city ends and nature begins. Both industrial and rural, wasteland and concrete, Marseille is an open-air laboratory where the relationship between urban area and nature, between wild and civilized, between north and south, is reinvented.

The genius of the city challenges and questions urban ecology, an emerging field of research that, between ecology and sociology, proposes new models for the cities of tomorrow. The time seems ripe for a serious conversation, both local and global, about what should become the habitat of humans on Earth.

New edition, expanded with photographic renewals and a preface by the author, "Toward Earthly Cities."

About the author :

Baptiste Lanaspeze, editor, author and consultant, runs Wildproject Editions, specializing in ecology. He is also the initiator of the GR 2013 and the co-founder of the Agence des Sentiers métropolitains (urban planning medal from the Academy of Architecture).