CONTENTS Notes on contributors vi Foreword: the wild side of town CHRIS BAINES xii Introduction ANNAJORGENSEN 1 PART 1: THEORIZING WILDSCAPES 15 1 Learning from Detroit or 'the wrong kind of ruins' CHRISTOPHER WOODWARD 17 2 Appreciating urban wildscapes: towards a natural history of unnatural places PAUL H. GOBSTER 33 3 Places to be wild in nature CATHARINE WARD THOMPSON 49 4 Playing in industrial ruins: interrogating teleological understandings of play in spaces of material alterity and low surveillance TIM EDENSOR, BETHAN EVANS, JULIAN HOLLOW/AY, STEVE MILLINGTON AND JON BINNIE 65 5 Nature, nurture; danger, adventure; junkyard, paradise: the role of wildscapes in children's literature KATY MUGFORD 80 PART 2: WILDSCAPE CASE STUDIES 97 6 Brown coal, blue paradise: the restoration of opencast coal mines in Lusatia, Germany RENEE DE WAAL AND ARJEN DE WIT 99 7 Wildscape in Shanghai: a case study of the Houtan Wetland Park - Expo 2010 Shanghai YICHEN LI 111 8 Christiania Copenhagen: a common out of the ordinary MARIA HELLSTROM REIMER 120 9 The River Don as a linear urban wildscape IAN D. ROTHERHAM 131 10 Enhancing ruderal perennials in Manor Fields Park, Sheffield: a new park on the 'bandit lands' of urban green space dereliction MARIAN TYLECOTE AND NIGEL DUNNETT 141 11 Pure urban nature: Nature-Park Sudgelande, Berlin ANDREAS LANGER 152 12 Upstaging nature: art in Sydenham Hill Wood HELEN MORSE PALMER 160 PART 3: IMPLICATIONS FOR WILDSCAPE PRACTICE 169 13 Buried narratives CATHERINE HEATHERINGTON 171 14 Taming the wild: Gyllin's Garden and the urbanization of a wildscape MATTIAS QVISTROM 187 15 Disordering public space: urban wildscape processes in practice DOUGAL SHERIDAN 201 16 Anti-planning, anti-design?: exploring alternative ways of makinc future urban landscapes ANNA JORGENSEN AND LILLI LICKA 221 Illustration credits 237 Index 239