Abandoned City Ecology: A Future Study
The deserted village had so sunk into the natural landscape of the coast that I did not see it until I was upon it. - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Overgrown and echoing with the ghosts of a thousand past conversations and daily routines. You enter a room; what was this one used for? What objects have been left behind? Why have they been left behind? Why have the people left at all? It doesn’t matter now; the city does not belong to them anymore. Unhindered, plants grow out of dirt that has collected in cracks, fed by the undisturbed leaves of trees and organic matter of all manner of dead things, plant or animal. Predators hunt prey, and plants fiercely compete for space, sunlight and nutrients. I am of course describing the abandoned city of Pripyat here… or Great Zimbabwe… or Machu Pichu… or Dwaraka. Former Hives, collections of human nests. The idea