ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 of Planning Wild Cities is entitled ‘Can the wild city be tamed?’ Is it possible for urban planning to better serve, protect, and nurture both our human and more-than-human worlds? What opportunities for those most vulnerable would unfold if planning was framed at heart as a focus on people, values, and ethics, and a commitment to working with, not against, nature? What would our cities be like then? These impacts are not generated by a vengeful nature ‘out there’, but by the consumption and complacency of us who live ‘in here’. We cannot simply retreat back to our lifeboat cities. Instead, the wild weather, wild capitalism, wild people, and wild politics will all still be waiting for us in the urban shadows – in our habitats and homes – in the cities and settlements we created. The chapter will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies, and sustainable development, and for all those invested in re-shaping our ‘wild’ city futures.
