Our cities have become concrete jungles and there is increasing air pollution.
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Parks like Shenandoah provide a stark contrast with the urban concrete jungles where these young people live.
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But unlike America's modern concrete jungles, these high rises were built from mud brick in the 16th century.
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As a result, Arab communities have become more and more densely populated, turning pastoral villages into concrete jungles.
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We wear stilts to hike around concrete jungles and lie about how they are anything other than medieval torture devices.
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Stores like Saturdays NYC and the now-closed Mollusk Surf Shop ignited an international craze for wave-riding essentials in concrete jungles.
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Urban sprawl The rapid growth of strip malls and housing developments has turned Houston -- and many other areas of America -- into concrete jungles.
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Some people delight in the concrete jungles that have been cropping up for centuries, but I don't happen to be one of them.
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The effects of globalization, consumerism, and urbanization are at the core of the artist's work, from QR codes amidst desolate landscapes, to animals lost in concrete jungles.
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Set to the track Midnight by Caravan Palace, the video also highlights the differences between the concrete jungles of large cities in the US, versus the strategically-planned neighborhoods in countries like Denmark that are designed to promote community.
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Lauren Salazar, who helped get the modern sour beer movement rolling at New Belgium Brewing Company, says that brewers tend to think green spaces have an advantage over concrete jungles because there's fauna to support the bacteria and yeast strains.
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Others fear they could miss out on tourism and see beautiful scenic towns buried under concrete jungles.
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Anakkayam Anakkayam, which means the "Elephant pit" [4], is on the Athirappilly route and noted for a lake with cool and placid waters. The place is a forest untouched by human encroachments and acts as a restorative haven for people who wish to escape from their city lives and "concrete jungles". The bubbling streams, natural rock formations, and colorful flora are major attractions for the weary traveler. Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary contributes to the peaceful ambiance.
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Jaffe studied Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, where she also wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on urban environmental problems and community involvement in Kingston, under the supervision of Peter Nas. Together with later fieldwork in Jamaica as well as Curaçao her dissertation formed the basis for the monograph Concrete Jungles. After writing her dissertation Jaffe held positions as postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and lecturer at Leiden University and University of the West Indies. From 2012 she worked as assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, where she was appointed associate professor in 2013.
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