CONTENTS

Preface

PART 1. SPRING TO SUMMER: The Natural City

  1. Victory Garden

  2. The Jam

  3. Rooftop Bees and Beans

  4. Taking Back Your Time

  5. The Slowest Food

  6. Urban Feral

  7. The Physics of Happiness

PART 2. AUTUMN: Frankenstorm

  8. Consumed

  9. High Five

10.  The Self-Paced Planet

11. Flames on the Hudson

12. Bronx River Bottom

PART 3. WINTER TO SPRING: Flight Paths

13. Slow Travel

14. Newyorquinos

15. The River

Acknowledgments

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