Continuing in the tradition of the now-defunct RE/Search Publications of combining graphics and text, investigates what happens to organisms as they adapt to and thrive in our ecosystem. A collaboration by artists, theorists nd scientists, this book is a pop media investigation of what happens when urban and human environments intersect with nature. Photos and illustrations.
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Concrete Jungle looks oddly like a high school science text book, butthe content is oozily compelling. -- Artforum
Concrete Jungle stands as one of the finest works in urban anthropology to appear in recent years. A plentitude of provocative essays, bizarre photographs, marginal quotes, and weird diagrams are to be found in this exploration of the intersection of urban living and Nature. -- Fringeware Review
The next time you throw a dinner party, bring this provocative, compelling, and amusing volume to the table. -- Time Out
This wry and often grotesque look at the food chain shows just how active nature is despite our unflagging attempts to pave it over -- Utne Reader
Concrete Jungle stands as one of the finest works in urban anthropology to appear in recent years. A plentitude of provocative essays, bizarre photographs, marginal quotes, and weird diagrams are to be found in this exploration of the intersection of urban living and Nature. -- Fringeware Review
The next time you throw a dinner party, bring this provocative, compelling, and amusing volume to the table. -- Time Out
This wry and often grotesque look at the food chain shows just how active nature is despite our unflagging attempts to pave it over -- Utne Reader
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This review is from: Concrete Jungle : A Pop Media Investigation of Death and Survival in Urban Ecosystems (Paperback)
A great book, with a general overview of the urban dwellers and the habitat they transform by interactions beetween species, space, history and the human perpective of the life in the cities.Its real achivement is the explorations in to urban ecosystems, with an accesible language for everyone.
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Dion, Rockman, and Ross show us what is in front of most of us, the dwellers of the urban landscape, in a way we all might like to think about looking at the world. This is a great, thought-provoking book which is a must for every rural and urban school, city, and town library around the globe. If hundreds of curious people pick it up to buy and read, and give it some consideration, all the better. I loved it.
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