Introducing Wildlife in Urban Ecosystems by Amartya Deb

As urbanization sprawls into natural areas, the traditional space for wildlife is diminishing. At the same time, in very unique ways the urban is accommodating certain species of plant and animals. Can it be that in future the urban and natural will be one integrated unit?

The book explores briefly a few critical aspects towards this vision. The novel and often incidental urban‐wild arrangements, natural capacity to adapt and human‐animal politics are discussed along with design measures, conservation policies and socioeconomic impacts. One of the significant

features of the book has been to appreciate the characteristics of 'wildlife' so as to inject it within urban spaces through a range of methods.

• ISBN: 978-93-83419-548
• Publication Date: August 2017
• Dimension: 6 x 9 in.
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 136

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amartya Deb is an architect and planner, specialising in cities and global development. The young architect from India has taken up the arguably ambitious challenge of envisioning the wild and urban as one single unit. Deb’s recent co-authored book, Introducing Wildlife in Urban Areas, decodes the characteristics of wildlife and urges re-visualisation of urban areas to encourage wildlife. Observing how a vast number of animals and plants are increasingly making cities their home, Amartya believes that future cities can draw a number of lessons for co-existence from this trend of wildlife migration to urban areas.