Carly Ziter reflects on returning to her hometown of Windsor and discovering how cities, even those shaped by industrial mythologies, can begin to repair, resist, and re-imagine their relationship with nature.
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Carly Ziter reflects on returning to her hometown of Windsor and discovering how cities, even those shaped by industrial mythologies, can begin to repair, resist, and re-imagine their relationship with nature.
👉 Read the full essay and join the conversation: buff.ly/zaExP5D
What if it means decolonizing how we think about land, nature, and power?
This #tnocessay traces NY colonial roots to ask a bigger question—how can cities learn again to live with nature, not against it?
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What if it means decolonizing how we think about land, nature, and power?
This #tnocessay traces NY colonial roots to ask a bigger question—how can cities learn again to live with nature, not against it?
buff.ly/c1Cipi7
Collserola once framed Barcelona — now it’s a “green island” surrounded by the metropolis. A global paradox emerges: cities depend on forests, yet urban growth threatens them.
From California to Nairobi, the challenges are shared.
🌱 Read more: buff.ly/EmybCSr
Collserola once framed Barcelona — now it’s a “green island” surrounded by the metropolis. A global paradox emerges: cities depend on forests, yet urban growth threatens them.
From California to Nairobi, the challenges are shared.
🌱 Read more: buff.ly/EmybCSr
What if cities stopped seeing green spaces as a burden and started seeing them as an invitation to nurture life?
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#urbanecology #greeninfrastructure #cities #biodiversity #stewardship
What if cities stopped seeing green spaces as a burden and started seeing them as an invitation to nurture life?
Read the full essay 👉
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#urbanecology #greeninfrastructure #cities #biodiversity #stewardship
Revisiting “The Elephant and the Ant” by María Aragão
As cities continue to grow, how can seeing the urban environment as an ecosystem — where balance matters — help us build more sustainable futures?
Dive into this TNOCEssay and join the discussion!
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Revisiting “The Elephant and the Ant” by María Aragão
As cities continue to grow, how can seeing the urban environment as an ecosystem — where balance matters — help us build more sustainable futures?
Dive into this TNOCEssay and join the discussion!
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What happens when public servants walk rivers, dunes, and imagine their city in 2035?
Two NbS workshops in Curitiba & Florianópolis show how imagination + lived experience can spark real urban transformation.
How would YOU reimagine your city?
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#NbS #UrbanResilience
What happens when public servants walk rivers, dunes, and imagine their city in 2035?
Two NbS workshops in Curitiba & Florianópolis show how imagination + lived experience can spark real urban transformation.
How would YOU reimagine your city?
🔗 buff.ly/urnqtLL
#NbS #UrbanResilience
What happens when you ask people around the world to photograph the outdoor places that keep them healthy?
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#UrbanNature #HealthyCities #Photovoice #NatureForHealth #TNOC
What happens when you ask people around the world to photograph the outdoor places that keep them healthy?
Read the essay and join the conversation: buff.ly/SEdE9TS
#UrbanNature #HealthyCities #Photovoice #NatureForHealth #TNOC
#TNOCEssay
Climate grief becomes memory and monument in Ghost Ships and Mourning Doves, the haunting exhibition by Robin Lasser and Sydney Brown at Chung 24 Gallery. What do we carry forward as the planet changes?
Read on The Nature of Cities.
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#TNOCEssay
Climate grief becomes memory and monument in Ghost Ships and Mourning Doves, the haunting exhibition by Robin Lasser and Sydney Brown at Chung 24 Gallery. What do we carry forward as the planet changes?
Read on The Nature of Cities.
buff.ly/oAlmJFU
Canada’s Great Lakes Waterfront Trail links 170+ communities & First Nations along 2,250 miles of freshwater.
Now, 8 U.S. states are creating a companion trail — together forming a cross-border path of nature, people & shared waters.
Read: buff.ly/y0sFp2W
Canada’s Great Lakes Waterfront Trail links 170+ communities & First Nations along 2,250 miles of freshwater.
Now, 8 U.S. states are creating a companion trail — together forming a cross-border path of nature, people & shared waters.
Read: buff.ly/y0sFp2W
Only 32.6% of environmental groups in Ontario include justice in their mission.
For co-author Tasmia, this wasn’t a statistic — it was personal. Feeling unseen in environmental spaces made her ask: What if environmentalism began by asking who belongs?
Read more:
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Only 32.6% of environmental groups in Ontario include justice in their mission.
For co-author Tasmia, this wasn’t a statistic — it was personal. Feeling unseen in environmental spaces made her ask: What if environmentalism began by asking who belongs?
Read more:
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The Youth Advocacy Playbook: How Youth Mobilize Knowledge for a #FossilFreeFuture Praneeta Mudaliar—Mississauga, Canada
Read the full essay on The Nature of Cities and join the conversation: buff.ly/WRGShbW
#ClimateJustice #YouthVoices #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateActio
The Youth Advocacy Playbook: How Youth Mobilize Knowledge for a #FossilFreeFuture Praneeta Mudaliar—Mississauga, Canada
Read the full essay on The Nature of Cities and join the conversation: buff.ly/WRGShbW
#ClimateJustice #YouthVoices #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateActio
Detroit is not empty.
A participatory (counter) mapping workshop revealed the city’s networks of care, connection, and nature, challenging old narratives of “vacancy.”
How can mapping become a tool for empowerment and belonging, not exclusion?
Join the conversation 👇
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Detroit is not empty.
A participatory (counter) mapping workshop revealed the city’s networks of care, connection, and nature, challenging old narratives of “vacancy.”
How can mapping become a tool for empowerment and belonging, not exclusion?
Join the conversation 👇
🔗 buff.ly/wBlhCKH
Learning to Appreciate the Abundance (and Scarcity) of Water
In his essay, Tim Beatley draws us into Santa Fe’s ancient acequia tradition—water ditches governed by neighbors, cleaned by hands, and honored as a shared common.
Read the full essay → buff.ly/yXNuAtR
Learning to Appreciate the Abundance (and Scarcity) of Water
In his essay, Tim Beatley draws us into Santa Fe’s ancient acequia tradition—water ditches governed by neighbors, cleaned by hands, and honored as a shared common.
Read the full essay → buff.ly/yXNuAtR
María Mejía—Bogotá
👉 Read the full #TNOCessay and join the conversation:
www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/09...
#UrbanWetlands #Cities4Nature #WetlandCity
María Mejía—Bogotá
👉 Read the full #TNOCessay and join the conversation:
www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/09...
#UrbanWetlands #Cities4Nature #WetlandCity
Tranquil City’s Guidebook to City Greening: The mission to ensure urban greening research is accessible for all
How can we make urban greening truly inclusive and evidence-based?
👉 Read here and join the conversation: buff.ly/bMPAV8K
#UrbanGreening #NatureBasedSolutions #GreenCities
Tranquil City’s Guidebook to City Greening: The mission to ensure urban greening research is accessible for all
How can we make urban greening truly inclusive and evidence-based?
👉 Read here and join the conversation: buff.ly/bMPAV8K
#UrbanGreening #NatureBasedSolutions #GreenCities
The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence… and lawns aren’t really “green” in a sustainability sense either.
So what explains their enduring popularity?
Read this #TNOCEssay by Alicja Wójcik:
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#urbangreenspaces
The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence… and lawns aren’t really “green” in a sustainability sense either.
So what explains their enduring popularity?
Read this #TNOCEssay by Alicja Wójcik:
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#urbangreenspaces
Andreas Weber — Berlin
Once, summer meant flickers of green and sparks of crimson — burnet moths rising like tiny flames from wildflowers.
Read this beautiful essay and be moved by its sensibility, rich imagery, and lived experience →
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Andreas Weber — Berlin
Once, summer meant flickers of green and sparks of crimson — burnet moths rising like tiny flames from wildflowers.
Read this beautiful essay and be moved by its sensibility, rich imagery, and lived experience →
buff.ly/Kagxxd2
Dust, Water, Memory: Listening to Alwar’s Forgotten Wells
—Arvind Lakshmisha, Bangalore & Siya Bhatia, Alwar
This essay listens to the stones, the people, and the water—asking what it takes to truly restore a landscape
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/5ax23D6
#WaterHeritage #UrbanNature
Dust, Water, Memory: Listening to Alwar’s Forgotten Wells
—Arvind Lakshmisha, Bangalore & Siya Bhatia, Alwar
This essay listens to the stones, the people, and the water—asking what it takes to truly restore a landscape
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/5ax23D6
#WaterHeritage #UrbanNature
Community gardens as living soundscapes: joy, protest, music, birdsong.
Gardens that refuse silence — because a silent garden is a threatened one.
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#TNOCEssay #UrbanGardens #RightToTheCity #NYC
Community gardens as living soundscapes: joy, protest, music, birdsong.
Gardens that refuse silence — because a silent garden is a threatened one.
👉 buff.ly/BoRQiLj
#TNOCEssay #UrbanGardens #RightToTheCity #NYC
Art That Moves Cities: How Creativity Revives Place and Spirit
Ebony Walden—Richmond
Art is not a luxury. It is infrastructure: essential to how communities breathe life into cities, tell their stories, and reimagine their future.
👉 Read it here: buff.ly/JlLy3G1
#ArtInCities
Art That Moves Cities: How Creativity Revives Place and Spirit
Ebony Walden—Richmond
Art is not a luxury. It is infrastructure: essential to how communities breathe life into cities, tell their stories, and reimagine their future.
👉 Read it here: buff.ly/JlLy3G1
#ArtInCities
But in fast-paced projects with short timelines + limited funding, it often is.
💡 Real change is slow, relational, deeply human.
Revisit this #TNOCEssay:
👉 www.thenatureofcities.com/2020/07/14/g...
#SlowResearch #YouthEngagement
But in fast-paced projects with short timelines + limited funding, it often is.
💡 Real change is slow, relational, deeply human.
Revisit this #TNOCEssay:
👉 www.thenatureofcities.com/2020/07/14/g...
#SlowResearch #YouthEngagement
Teaching Environmental Politics During the Trump Presidency
How do you teach about systems being dismantled in real time?
A powerful reflection on teaching, truth-telling & climate justice in uncertain times.
www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/06...
#EnvironmentalJustice
Teaching Environmental Politics During the Trump Presidency
How do you teach about systems being dismantled in real time?
A powerful reflection on teaching, truth-telling & climate justice in uncertain times.
www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/06...
#EnvironmentalJustice
How We Miss Half of Wildlife
by Sophia Kimmig — Leipzig
At night, cities transform. Wild boars at bus stops. Raccoons in trees. We miss half of nature by living in daylight.
🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/06...
#UrbanNature #LivingNight #NocturnalWildlife #TheNatureOfCities
How We Miss Half of Wildlife
by Sophia Kimmig — Leipzig
At night, cities transform. Wild boars at bus stops. Raccoons in trees. We miss half of nature by living in daylight.
🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/06...
#UrbanNature #LivingNight #NocturnalWildlife #TheNatureOfCities
Who do you call when the floodwaters rise?
It’s not just roads & pipes—it’s trust, care & connection.
Across the Caribbean & U.S. Northeast, resilience is being built in solidarity. Even as federal support fades, communities act.
Read: www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/06...
Who do you call when the floodwaters rise?
It’s not just roads & pipes—it’s trust, care & connection.
Across the Caribbean & U.S. Northeast, resilience is being built in solidarity. Even as federal support fades, communities act.
Read: www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/06...
By Arantxa Zamora, Mexico City
#TNOCEssay
A clown at a science workshop? In La Paz, it worked. 🤡💧
When art meets science, it sparks action and deepens our connection with nature.
📖 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/05...
By Arantxa Zamora, Mexico City
#TNOCEssay
A clown at a science workshop? In La Paz, it worked. 🤡💧
When art meets science, it sparks action and deepens our connection with nature.
📖 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/05...