ESSAYS | POINTS OF VIEW
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Restoring Sense-Making to Young People (Cyborgs) in Our Techno-Social-Natural World
In late April 2025, I took my Introduction to Geography students outside on the campus front lawn. Working in pairs, students were tasked to do the following: (1) to record and describe in detail as many elements of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and lithosphere that they could see and feel; (2) to describe what they…
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How Artists Help to Transform Natural Resources Management: Building a theory of change
In the context of the increased complexity of socio-ecological challenges and the growing involvement of arts and culture in climate action (increasingly framed as culture-based climate action), we need to be able to analyse and understand the dynamics of transdisciplinary work involving artists. Reports of artists’ collaborations with natural resource managers and researchers tend to…
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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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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
