This was the feeling this weekend: heavy, hot, humid. The Austral Summer won't let you ignore it, you must inhabit its tropical lushness until it's gone.
Making me forget I’m in the middle of a vast city."
Reminds me of the parks in Tokyo, so artfully landscaped that in the heart of one, the teeming metropolis disappears entirely from awareness, and you can imagine you're in the middle of a forest, centuries in the past.
"Lush vegetation has taken over in places
Making me forget I’m in the middle of a vast city."
Reminds me of the parks in Tokyo, so artfully landscaped that in the heart of one, the teeming metropolis disappears entirely from awareness, and you can imagine you're in the middle of a forest, centuries in the past.
Yes... some cities have this magic property. I have a debt with Japan, I still haven't been able to go, but it's certainly on my list.
To preserve the wild wood in the city is the highest form of urbanism.