Trying to formulate a stance on European wild. Clearly the concept is heavily embedded and founded upon American soil, but to a certain extent, what I am seeing in cities like Rome is a much deeper engagement in wildness. Note: not wilderness. Not a large tract of land set aside for the protection of wildness, but instead, as depicted on the left, small patches of forgotten space, relics and space of the past, wild ruins open to the elements, wildness sprouting from architecture, much like the post industrial relics of the American rustbelt. But these spaces are fully embedded in a dense urban fabric that (not so slowly) grew up around them.
On the other side of the coin are the small insertions of garden patches existing within the greater historic or natural wild/ landscapes of cultivation or forest. These places exist as small cultural hubs, precise paths spliced into a wild landscape or a landscape of production. While the experience or view of the wild urban patches is inward, that of the latter is outward, focusing not so much on the occupied space, but its relationship to what is beyond.
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