ESSAYS | POINTS OF VIEW
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When Sustainable Wildlife Management Goes Urban
A fox trots down a street in Berlin at dusk. A troop of baboons moves through a residential garden in Cape Town. A coyote is caught on a camera trap behind a Chicago strip mall, one data point among hundreds of thousands flowing in from cities across the world. Do these urban dwellers get a…
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The Guardians of Juhu
A story of Citizens’ Stewardship that helped achieve nature-based goals within neighbourhoods of Mumbai in the 2020s. Published ― May 2150. This story begins more than a century ago, in the days when the city was still learning that concrete could not overcome nature. Mumbai is a city built upon the sea. People filled the…
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The Earth and I …
The purpose of this essay is to probe the relationship between the Earth, our bodies, and ourselves. That these three are inextricably interlaced may seem self-evident, yet that very relationship is fraught with ambiguity. It is undoubtedly a misconception of Western thought that—as individuals and societies—we are primarily defined and valued as productions of our…
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TNOC FESTIVAL 2026
The journey to greener,
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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
