Flora of urban wastelands

This flora exposes the biodiversity of urban wastelands. It documents the landscapes and vegetation; it invites you to recognize and name the 299 most common plants that they shelter; it can act as a game; it leads to a new universe of meaning and knowledge. Wastelands are a world, a refuge. They provide shelter to a prodigious diversity of plant and animal species in urban areas. The areas disused post-industrial areas, abandoned orchards, derelict land Along railway lines or waterways are spaces of experiences sensory of an unknown intensity. Jumping over the barriers that separate them, the stroller and the reader then dive in in a generous, exuberant, feverish nature. The city is no longer there rumor, a background noise. "This book is for all those who, sitting on the train, make the look at the plants hanging on the old ballasts. To those who, wedged in the back seat of the car, notice the greenery out of the corner of their eye wastelands. [...] By the botanist Audrey Muratet, the photographer Myr Muratet and the designer Marie Pellaton, this compilation explains the survival mechanisms, and even prosperity of plants, in these environments that we believes inhospitable. The work is the first flora devoted to them, and the only one of its kind. [...] A methodical, systematic, scientific and yet poetic. Sibylle Vincendon, Liberation New expanded edition of the work published by Xavier Barral in 2017.