ESSAYS | POINTS OF VIEW
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Urban Mini-forests Can Reinvent How Cities Grow, Learn, and Respond to Climate Stress
Sunlight hits the concrete courtyard of a large public school complex in the northern outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil. It is a dense urban area with few trees and limited access to green space. Yet in the courtyard of CEU Parque Novo Mundo, children pick pitanga berries, teachers rest in the shade of young trees,…
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Living and Working as Biodiversity
Soon after the turn of the century, James Miller wrote a couple of important articles on urban biodiversity. The first argued that conservation biology needs to focus more on areas “where people live and work” (i.e., cities) to address the (adverse) effects of human land use (Miller and Hobbs, 2002). The second argued that people…
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Between Parks and Rubble: Childhood and Public Space in Damascus
“The older we grow, the more we miss our childhood and the playgrounds of our youth. And the more I walk through the streets of modern Damascus, the more I long for the old neighborhoods. I long for the past, for my purity, for the little girl who was two girls at once: one who…
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TNOC FESTIVAL 2026
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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
