I love writing about cities as a biological phenomenon, so I have already covered the evolution of cities, urban ecology, and urban evolution in dedicated features, as well as going on about continuing urbanisation of our species eg in the context of the 8 billion threshold in global population.
The recent report of vast, previously unsuspected "garden cities" in the Amazon provided a good excuse and a new angle to revisit cities again. Ancient Amazonians managed to establish a civilisation and well-structured urban space in the face of extreme environmental conditions, so maybe we should study their example when we aim to make our cities more sustainable on the verge of the global climate catastrophe?
The resulting feature is out now:
Green cities past, present and future
Current Biology Volume 34, Issue 4, 26 February 2024, Pages R117-R119
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See also my Mastodon thread where I highlighted all CB features of 2024.
The thread for 2023 is here .
A LiDAR image from the study by Rostain and colleagues, who describe the largest settled area in Amazonia known so far. (Image: © LiDAR, A. Dorison and S. Rostain.)
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