Author Archives: Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann
Wild in the City
Portland, OR USA
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : wildlands within the city
I envision this as a way to bolster fragile native ecosystems
What type of interventions would love to see to help shape Urban Wilderness? We’re interested in both the practical and the fantastically impractical.: long strips of open space that [...]
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moss on my nuts
gothenburg, sweden
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : concrete, steel, glass grows everyday all around us; they seem to be a type of human-generated vegetation in an urban landscape? I personally can’t imagine what urban wilderness is supposed to mean, some kind of brain-fuck juxtaposition? Am I a nincompoop, probably, but [...]
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living environments in industrialized Places
NY, NY USA
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : To me, I see urban wilderness as living environments in industrialized settings. Whether it’s a community garden on a city block, a remediated vacant lot, a forest at the edge of town, a fountain in an office plaza, a cluster of container [...]
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San Francisco, California, USA
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : there are lots of people in urban places. that’s what makes them urban. the wilderness is where there are few or no people, and therefore nature instead. Urban places are awash with commercial messaging, and wilderness areas are devoid of commercial [...]
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The preservation, restoration, or natural succession of wild places in the city
Brooklyn NY
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : Wilderness is all around us though we’ve paved over much of it. It fights the asphalt, struggling to succeed. Finds its way through crack and crevice, planting itself in abandoned buildings, untended sidewalks and parking lots. Nature thrives in the edge. In the [...]
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A space where there is no control
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : I see Urban Wilderness as a place where natives are perfectly at home and confident in their environment. A place where the inhabitants have created an indemic system that self-regulates like an organism, so that it becomes productive, net positive and easily [...]
Mapping urban wilderness
NYC, ny
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : i guess you could define UW in many ways…most obvious are the green references, urban farm, gardens, etc..
Maybe this is going off the rails but…
What if you look at UW as a kind of map, tracing products from there roots (no pun intended) [...]
Urban wilderness is unbounded growth in bound space.
Brooklyn / NY, United States
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : Urban Wilderness at its best is natural growth and beautification in claimed or unclaimed space. It can be moss in cracks or a hawk in a city park.
This pioneering (or well established)growth reminds of the tenuous control of artificial structures [...]
wilderness as hashtag
New York City, ny
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : Hmm. I see those two words as pretty near I could see it in a couple of ways.
1) If I’m defining it in a way that would be used like a twitter hashtag (narrow enough to have a high signal to [...]
Spaces of chaotic and evolving life amongst the architecture of the city.