Urban Jungle Movement

There's a good thread on the "New Urban Jungle" movement over at Metafilter today, and it should generate plenty of interesting discussion.

 the new urban jungle ... is a growing movement led by cities like San Francisco, New York, and Leiden to restore active and vibrant natural systems in urban areas.  Far from the eden-like depictions of nature of yesteryear, i.e. the garden of earthly delights (nonetheless, still attracting some dynamic new christian converts), the movement has morphed into today's backyard and grassroots environmental movement which is more and more a picture of hybridity, compromise, mixed-use, and ultimately, taking nature out of the walled islands of zoos, aquaria, national parks and other thick-walled institutions and offering a different kind of everyday "unmediated" community experience with the new urban wilderness. VIDEO LINK