March, 2001
Arizona Water Resources,
Joe Gelt
ed.,
vol.
9,
no.
5,
12
pp.,
Water Resources Research Center,
Tucson, AZ,
March, 2001
The poet Frank O'Hara was obviously on the side ofthe urbanist when he wrote, "I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy." The urban ecologist looks beyond this view, with its division of the world into the natural environment and areas inhabited by humans, a dichotomy variously expressed as city vs. country, urban vs. rural, or the great outdoors vs. crowded city spaces.