The outstanding social and ecological roles of urban forests in the
growth of cities has become widely known. In many parts of the
world, despite or even because of continuing suburbanization,
initiatives are being put forth to preserve urban forests, to
develop them further and to make them acc- sible to the public.
This volume focuses on a particular component of the urban forest -
trix urban wild woodlands. We understand these to be stands of
woody plants, within the impact area of cities, whose form is
characterized by trees and in which a large leeway for natural
processes makes possible a convergence toward wilderness. The
wilderness character of these urban woodlands can vary greatly. We
differentiate between two kinds of w- derness. The old wilderness
is the traditional one; it may return slowly to woodland areas when
forestry use has been abandoned. The enhancement of wilderness is a
task already demanded of urban and peri-urban forestry in many
places. This book would like to direct the attention of the reader
to a second kind of wilderness, which we call new wilderness. This
arises on heavily altered urban-industrial areas where abandonment
of use makes such change possible. The wild nature of urban
abandoned areas was discovered in the 1970s through
urban-ecological research. Since then, in a very short time,
profound structural changes in industrial countries have led to h-
dreds or thousands of hectares in urbanized areas becoming
available for natural colonization processes."
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