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Wild City.

Punk horticulture for a connected urban future. The first long-form transmission from the Wild City Press — by Jon Davies and Steve Williams.

Wild City book cover — collage of reclaimed urban landscape with bold WILD CITY type

★ Out Now · 320pp · Hardback ★

A manifesto
disguised as a
horticulture
book.

Reclaim the cracks. Plant the verge. Refuse the lawn. Wild City is a full-throated case for a regenerative, biodiverse, defiantly unmanicured urban future — written from the soil of East London for city-makers, gardeners, planners and agitators everywhere.

ISBN 978-1-83681-036-9 · Published by Wild City Press · £24

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Inside the book.

I.

Why the lawn is the enemy — and why the verge, the crack, and the kerb are where the future grows.

II.

Field notes from a decade of reclaimed sites across London — what worked, what failed, what bit back.

III.

A practical playbook for planners, gardeners and agitators ready to put soil under their fingernails.