Within the Sunday Times Bestseller The Book of Wilding – A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small by Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell, an entire chapter is dedicated to Vertical Forests, featuring Milan’s Bosco Verticale (Boeri Studio) as an example of biophilic design in action.
The Book of Wilding is a handbook on how to help restore nature. It was born from the authors’ mission to promote rewilding — that is, returning land and ecosystems to a more natural state — across Britain, Europe, and beyond, sharing the knowledge gained through their pioneering Knepp rewilding project in Sussex. The book is inspired by the growing demand from people who want to learn how to rewild everything from failing farms, large estates, and rivers to ponds, allotments, cemeteries, urban parks, gardens, windowsills, and public spaces.
In this context, within the chapter “Urban Rewilding: Bringing Nature Back into Our Cities,” a section is dedicated to biophilic design — an approach to architecture and urban planning that integrates nature and its elements into built environments to improve people’s physical, psychological, and emotional well-being. Among the various categories — green facades, living walls, green roofs — the book highlights vertical forests, presenting Milan’s Bosco Verticale and its international counterparts in Nanjing and Huanggang as exemplary case studies.
For the full volume: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-wilding-9781526659293/