ESSAYS | POINTS OF VIEW
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Hopes for My Hometown
“Cities have mythologies”, a colleague mentions offhandedly. There are the smart cities, turning to technologies to improve essential services and respond to challenges. The global cities serve as pivotal nodes in economic networks. There are cities that view themselves as superior ― the ones that nobody wants to leave, but that can overlook their own…
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Highlights from The Nature of Cities 2025
Cities are, at their best, collaborative masterpieces, aren’t they? They take shape through the interplay of many professions, ways of knowing, forms of action, institutions, and—above all—the desires of the people who live in them. They are cultural, ecological, human, and more-than-human all at once. Together (and sometimes in tension), these forces shape cities consistent…
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The Art of Growing Back: Why Regeneration, not Sustainability, is the real logic of abundance
I often think that culture has always been regenerative. It just forgot how to name itself that way. Every artist who reuses materials, every community project that heals a derelict space, every curator who invites new voices into the conversation are all, in essence, regenerating. They are restoring life, meaning, and relationship where something has…
TNOC’S MISSION
Cities and communities that are better for nature and all people, 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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ROUNDTABLES | GLOBAL DISCUSSIONS
PROJECTS | ART, SCIENCE & ACTION, TOGETHER
TNOC FESTIVAL 2026
The journey to greener,
more inclusive cities
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SPROUT POETRY JOURNAL
ISSUE 4: CARE
This latest issue includes works that interrogate the modes of engaging with others in (urban and natural) space that can speak to the interrelated dimensions of care.
NBS COMICS: NATURE TO SAVE THE WORLD
26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
Now a global project with over ONE MILLION readers, we invite comic creators from all over the world to imagine comics about how people and nature might thrive together. Nature-based Solutions (NBS) Comics empowers creators to combine science and storytelling.
STORIES OF TNOC: VOLUME 2
Cheeky monkeys, vertical farms, climate change, and tree tribunals. Our latest collection features 49 short stories from 20 countries that radically re-imagine city life.
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THE NATURE OF GRAFFITI
This is the nature of graffiti. It facilitates speech. It speaks to us. It stakes claims and makes statements. It tells stories.
The Nature of Cities hosts a public gallery about the graffiti and street art that motivates us in public places.
REVERBERATIONS EXHIBITION
Close your eyes. What do you hear?
An exhibition exploring the elements through art, science, and sound, with over 30 contributors from various disciplines in a multimedia experience. Produced by the USDA Forest Service and The Nature of Cities.
THE JUST CITY ESSAYS
