ESSAYS | POINTS OF VIEW
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Plant Journal
Trees as lived memories serve us citizens and residents, a culinary or recreational experience of engaging with them at regular intervals in our lives. A mango or jackfruit tree may bring back past relationships with our forefathers, and their ritualistic pickling processes or preservation through frying of chips. A banyan or peepal tree of the…
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‘Just’ Cruising Around Copenhagen? Insights at the nexus of queer intimacy and public green area management
*The essay below draws upon the authors’ research article, ‘Just’ cruising in liberal Denmark: ambiguities at the nexus of queer intimacy and public green area management, recently published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. When we introduce the topic of our recent collaborative research, most people assume that we are attending to the…
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Plays are Social Dialogue: Theatre as a Meeting Ground for Environmental Debate and Cross-Disciplinary Learning
Classic plays are often approached as cultural artifacts: texts to be presented, preserved, interpreted, and admired for their artistic merit or historical importance. They are staged to entertain, to educate about theatrical craft, or to fulfill curricular requirements in literature and drama. They have been seen and appreciated by countless people. They are amazing works…
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ROUNDTABLES | GLOBAL DISCUSSIONS
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Rising autocracy around the globe is strangling science and crippling public dialogue around knowledge and action in sustainability. What now?
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PROJECTS | ART, SCIENCE & ACTION, TOGETHER
TNOC FESTIVAL 2026
The journey to greener,
more inclusive cities
continues…
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
