Towards an Urban Ecological Consciousness

Experiencing Wild Places in the City

Abstract

The "Green City"2 has in recent years emerged as an integrated conceptual framework with which to respond locally to the global environmental crisis. In theory, a Green City is "in harmony with ecosystems that support it, and ... contains a populace that considers itself a part of the biosphere and acts accordingly."3 The concept, in short, addresses the need for our society to respectfully build with, rather than impose upon, the land and the natural world.