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February 28, 2008
Since the industrial revolution there has been a trend in Australia greater urbanisation. Today the majority of the population live and / or work in ever expanding towns and cities along the seaboard. As both urban areas and their populations have grown so has the significance of urban landscapes.
The city is less an urban jungle from which to flee, than a dynamic living system, an ever changing landscape of diverse patches of concrete and greenery. It is a network of human and non-human habitats full of complex ecological interactions, environmental hazards and opportunities. The urban jungle includes nature.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, urban trees, Melbourne, 2008
If 'jungle' refers to, and includes, green spaces in our cities, then urban nature exists in different varieties in our cities and towns.
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That's a beautiful image. A bit spooky. What is the ground surface? It looks like sand.