For too long the forest and city have been at odds. The one chopped down to build the other.
The Ramayana (an ancient Hindu epic) describes a forest-city inhabited by monkey creatures. It is called Kishkindha.
It is not a bucolic paradise as would be understood in the West, but a place nonetheless where humans, flora and fauna live in immediate proximity. What if New York could be transformed into a Kishkindha? What if it was designed not by planners? But by the root systems of trees and mushrooms? What if it was designed not as land but as land/water. What if huge creatures appeared that slowly ate away the old city, and in their tracks left the beginnings of a verdant forest and a new post-human order. What if these creatures - at first man-made, would become over time anabiotic entities living on their own, moving every further afield.
Creatures that are part bio-organic machine, part deity, destroying and rebuilding.
A shape shifting city. A city which is not one.
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