You say po-TAY-to. What ecologists and landscape architects don’t get about each other, but ought to.
   Ana Faggi, Buenos Aires    Mark Hostetler, Gainesville    Maria E Ignatieva, Perth    Amy Hahs, Ballarat    Jürgen Breuste, Salzburg    Susannah Drake, New York City    Marcus Hedblom, Uppsala    Andrew Grant, Bath    Mike Wells, Bath    Steven Handel, New Brunswick    Diane Pataki, Salt Lake City    Ian MacGregor-Fors, Xalapa    Anne Trumble, Los Angeles    Christine Thuring, Vancouver    Kevin Sloan, Dallas-Fort Worth    Gloria Aponte, Medellín    Nina-Marie Lister, Toronto    Sarah Hinners, Salt Lake City    AnaLuisa Artesi, Buenos Aires    Jala Makhzoumi, Beirut    Jason King, Portland    Yun Hye HWANG, Singapore    Danielle Dagenais, Montreal    Mary Cadenasso, Davis    Veronica Fabio, Buenos Aires    Peter Werner, Darmstadt

Neighborhood Planning for Resilient and Livable Cities, Part 3 of 3: Montréal’s Green, Active and Healthy Neighborhoods Project
   Nik Luka, Montreal and Uppsala    Jayne Engle, Montreal

Patch Reflection
   Victoria Marshall, Singapore

A Matter of Scale: Connecting Human Design Decisions with Decisions Made by Wildlife
   Mark Hostetler, Gainesville

Heritage Trees of Cape Town (Continued)
   Russell Galt, Edinburgh

The Cities We Want: Resilient, Sustainable, and Livable
   David Maddox, New York

Managing Informal Markets and Limiting Citizen Marginalization
   Jennifer Baljko, Barcelona

The Sustainability Challenge of Feeding Cities
   Graciela Arosemena, Panama City
Many voices. Greener cities. Better cities.

TNOC’s Mission

We believe the route to cities and communities that are better for nature and all people is through transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. We combine art, science, and practice in innovative and publicly available engagements for knowledge-driven, imaginative, and just green city making.

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EVENTS

How Do Biophilic Design Approaches in Cafes and Restaurants in Buenos Aires Motivate Their Customers?
Ana Faggi,  Buenos Aires
Regina Nabhen,  Buenos Aires
Patricia Frontera,  Buenos Aires
Ana Saez,  Buenos Aires

Human reconnection with Nature is one of the greatest challenges of architecture in the attempt to generate more livable cities in built environments. Among architects and designers, there were visionaries who sought to reflect an indivisible relationship between art, life, and nature in their compositions. One of them was Hundertwasser (1928-2000) who opposed straight lines, geometry, and proposed spiral shapes...
A person crouched down on the ground looking at green vegetables at a market
Exploring the Diverse Contributions of Informality to Transformation in the Largest Cities of Africa
Ibrahim Wallee,  Accra

In the dynamic landscape of Africa, a fascinating interplay unfolds between urban informality and the transformative promise of primate cities. Mark Jefferson defined a primate city in 1939 as the largest in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy: at least over twice the size and significance of the next largest...
An aerial view of an oxbow river with many natural twists and turns
The goal is to mainstream Nature-based Solutions, by widening public acceptance and making it the standard and default practice of urban design. What will it take to get there?
James Bonner,  Glasgow |  Harriet Bulkeley,  Durham |  Tam Dean Burn,  Glasgow |  Stuart Connop,  London |  Bryce Corlett,  Norfolk |  Laura Costadone,  Norfolk |  Olukayode Daramola,  Surrey |  McKenna Davis,  Berlin |  Gillian Dick,  Glasgow |  Loan Diep,  New York City |  Niki Frantzeskaki,  Utrecht |  Zbigniew Grabowski,  Hartford |  Perrine Hamel,  Singapore |  Mariem EL Harrak,  Paris |  Cecilia Herzog,  Rio de Janeiro |  Nadja Kabisch,  Hannover |  Doris Knoblauch,  Berlin |  Frédéric Lemaître,  Paris |  Paola Lepori,  Brussels |  Patrick M. Lydon,  Daejeon |  David Maddox,  New York |  Israa Mahmoud,  Milan |  Timon McPhearson,  New York |  Seema Mundoli,  Bangalore |  Harini Nagendra,  Bangalore |  Caroline Nash,  London |  Neville Owen,  Melbourne |  Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman,  College Park |  Eleanor Ratcliffe,  Surrey |  Kassia Rudd,  Freiburg |  Valentine Seymour,  Surrey |  David Simon,  London |  Takemi Sugiyama,  Melbourne |  Morro Touray,  Surrey |  Ibrahim Wallee,  Accra | 

THE NATURE OF CITIES FESTIVAL 2024

The Distance Between
Dreams and Reality
is Action

In 2024 we focus on translating knowledge to results. Join us.

EXHIBITS

PROJECTS

Reverberations

Reverberations An exhibition exploring the elements through art, science, and sound, Reverberations features more than 30 contributors from various disciplines in a multimedia experience. Produced by the USDA Forest Service and The Nature of Cities. This is an immersive sound-based exhibition. Headphones are recommended Enable Audio “Can you imagine listening to all that is sounding as if your body were...
Fiction

We asked people to imagine future cities, in the form of a flash or very short fiction. The series now includes two volumes: the latest is titled CITY IN A WILD GARDEN, a collection of 49 stories from 21 countries.
Poetry

With SPROUT, we are curating a space for trans- and multi-disciplinary collaborations between poets, researchers, and citizens with a focus on geographical diversity, polyvocality, and translation. We are a creative project of The Nature of Cities, specifically interested in the character of green cities from many ways of knowing.
The Just City Essays: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity

Today’s headlines—from Ferguson to Baltimore, Paris to Johannesburg—resound with the need for a frank conversation about the structures and processes that affect the quality of life and livelihoods of urban residents. Issues of equity, inclusion, race, participation, access and ownership remain unresolved in many communities around the world,  even as we begin to address the challenges of affordability, climate change adaptation and resilience.