ABSTRACT
Urban rewilding is a bottom-up approach that starts with the passive act of allowing the spontaneous growth of plants in cities. To place the urban rewilding into a systematic framework for implementing a greening policy, this chapter describes the attributes and types of wild urban landscapes that serve various socio-ecological functions, and considers the application of a rewilding policy at multiple scales, involving different stakeholder groups, via a compact city case study. Rewilding of urban landscapes refers to a strategic process that reduces the influence of humans on the urban ecosystem to support ecologically resilient cityscapes. Unlike managed greenery that maintains a static appearance from the time of construction, rewilded urban landscapes are ever-changing organic assemblages that allow species to emerge, flourish, mature, and sometimes disappear. The author identifies tasks for four key stakeholder groups: researchers in urban ecology; planners and urban designers; policy-makers; and the public and greenspace users.
