Simone Rotella
Thousands of kilometres of creepy catacombs under the city of Odessa, Ukraine; derelict strips of brambles along railway lines in Amsterdam in the Netherlands; stacks of dead leaves piled around street-side trees in Baltimore, Maryland; vacant lots in inner-city Beijing; slimy greenish-grey films in a Parisian gutter; a lawn of astroturf in front of a Melbourne office building…
City dwellers pass places like these on a daily basis – and look away in disgust or indifference. When talking about urban nature, such unsightly spots aren’t what comes to mind – we think instead of pleasant city parks or grandiose urban…
