It is exciting. My feral youth on an Alaskan island has caused me to eschew cities and urbanization, due to the paucity of vibrant life in such places.

Incorporating ecosystems into our urban infrastructure, much as our very bodies are becoming understood to be ecosystemic infrastructure (about 10% of the cells in your body are YOUR cells, the rest are essential ecosystem without which humans cannot survive), is essential to creating environments in which humans thrive.

Our need for nature, for the complexity of forms, niches, and synchronicity, which we need to interface with (in my case, daily) to be happy, is more and more evident in studies in diverse fields, from sociology, to biology, to civil engineering.