Awareness – Page 7 – The Nature of Cities

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Kurdish (Kurmanji)

Myanmar (Burmese)

Scottish Gaelic

2016 Aug

Timely Tales of Urban Nature

Gavin Van Horn

Art, Awareness, Biodiversity, Experiencing Nature, What is urban nature?, Wildlife People Interactions
2016 Aug

Formes pour vivre: An Experiment in Ecological-Environmental-Scientific Poetics

Karen Houle

Art, Awareness, Communities, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Experiencing Nature, Language, Tools, What is urban nature?
2016 Aug

Water as a Commons in Detroit, the Great Lakes, and Beyond

Rebecca Salminen Witt

Agriculture, Awareness, Disasters/Red zone, Ecosystem services, Green Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Justice, North America, Policy, Water
2016 Aug

Lessons from Beasts, Birds, and Other Inhabitants of the Urban Jungle

Chris Hensley

Art, Awareness, Culture, Tools, Wildlife People Interactions
2016 Jul

Skin the City

Paula Segal
and
Daniel Eizirik

Art, Awareness, Culture, Gentrification, Housing, Justice, Livability, Planning
2016 Jun

Anatomy of a Mural: A Seventy Foot Heron Transforms a Lifeless Wall

Mike Houck

Art, Awareness, Communities, Livability, Networks, Restoration, Stewardship, Tools
2016 Jun

What Should We Make of Jane Jacobs’ Critique of Parks in The Death and Life of Great American Cities?—TNOC Podcast Episode 8

Philip Silva
and
David Maddox

Awareness, Communities, Design, Experiencing Nature, Livability, North America, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Policy, Wildlife People Interactions
2016 May

Poetry Produces the Novel Language of Future Cities

Laura Booth

Art, Awareness, Experiencing Nature, Stewardship, Tools, Value, What is urban nature?
2016 May

Biophilic Urban Acupuncture: The Importance of Biophilia in Urban Places

Jonce Walker

Art, Awareness, Biophilia, Design, Health, Parks, Tools, Transportation
2016 May

Environmental Education and Advancing Urbanization

David Maddox
,
Harini Nagendra
,
Thomas Elmqvist
and
Alex Russ

Awareness, Biodiversity, Education, Policy, What is urban nature?
2016 Apr

Visions of resilience: Eighteen artists say or show something in response to the word “resilience”

Juan Carlos Arroyo
,
David Brooks
,
Katrine Claassens
,
Emilio Fantin
,
Ganzeer
,
Lloyd Godman
,
Fran Ilich
,
Frida Larios
,
Todd Lester
,
Patrick M. Lydon
,
Mary Mattingly
,
David Maddox
,
E. J. McAdams
,
Mary Miss
,
Edna Peres
,
Caroline Robinson
,
Finzi Saidi
and
Keijiro Suzuki

Architecture, Art, Awareness, Biophilia, Culture, Design, Ecosystem services, Invasive Species, Katrine Claassens, Resilience, What is urban nature?
2016 Apr

Capturing Stewardship Stories: The Unlikely Tale of a Massive Open Online Course

Kimberly Snyder
and
Marianne Krasny

Awareness, Communities, Conservation, Disasters/Red zone, Education/Knowledge/Learning, History, Participation/Democracy, Stewardship
2016 Apr

Confronting the Dark Side of Urban Agriculture

Francois Mancebo

Agriculture, Architecture, Awareness, Children, Health, Pollution, Smart Cities, What is urban nature?
2016 Mar

Small Rain Gardens for Stormwater and Biodiversity in the City: Learning from Traditional Ways

Keitaro Ito

Asia, Awareness, Biodiversity, Culture, Design, Gardens, Green Infrastructure
2016 Mar

How Perspectives of Field Arborists and Tree Climbers are Useful for Understanding and Managing Urban Forests

Adrina Bardekjian

Art, Awareness, Communities, Culture, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Experiencing Nature, Stewardship, Trees
2016 Mar

Graffiti and street art can be controversial, but can also be a medium for voices of social change, protest, or expressions of community desire. What, how, and where are examples of graffiti as a positive force in communities?

Pauline Bullen
,
Paul Downton
,
Emilio Fantin
,
Ganzeer
,
Germán Gomez
,
Sidd Joag
,
Patrick M. Lydon
,
David Maddox
,
Patrice Milillo
and
Laura Shillington

Art, Awareness, Communities, Culture, Experiencing Nature, Justice, Livability, Participation/Democracy, Value, What is urban nature?
2016 Feb

Setting Out from Bangkok. TNOC Podcast Bangkok to Barcelona 01

Jennifer Baljko

Asia, Awareness, Communities, Experiencing Nature
2016 Feb

Photo Essay: Life and Water at Rachenahalli Lake

Sumetee Gajjar

Art, Asia, Awareness, Business, Children, Communities, Ecosystem services, Health, Pollution, Water
2016 Feb

Resilience and the Butterfly Effect: Could a Grain of Quinoa from Bolivia Influence Barcelona City Resilience?

Lorenzo Chelleri

Awareness, Biodiversity, Business, Disasters/Red zone, Ecosystem services, Indigenous peoples, Networks, Resilience
2016 Feb

The Ecologies of Senses and Environmental Justice in Managua

Laura Shillington

Awareness, Culture, Design, Health, Justice, Livability, Participation/Democracy, Sound, Value
2016 Feb

Finding My Sustainable Way

Miranda Gardiner

Architecture, Awareness, Culture, Ecological footprint, Media, Policy, Sustainability, Tools, Value
2016 Feb

The New Vocabulary of Urban Landscaping for Southern California

Stephanie Pincetl
and
Kitty Connolly

Awareness, Biodiversity, Conservation, Design, Ecosystem services, Gardens, Invasive Species, Landscape, North America, Value
2016 Feb

Nature in Chicago: Surprisingly Wild, Surprisingly Human

Chris Hensley

Awareness, Biodiversity, Biophilia, North America, What is urban nature?, Wildlife People Interactions
2016 Feb

The Elephant in the Room: Amazonian Cities Deserve More Attention in Climate Change and Sustainability Discussions

Eduardo Brondizio

Awareness, Climate change, Development, Indigenous peoples, Justice, South America, Sustainability
2016 Jan

Creative Place-Making—This is The Nature of Graffiti

David Maddox
,
Pippin Anderson
,
Paul Downton
,
Emilio Fantin
,
Germán Gomez
,
Julie Goodness
,
Mike Houck
,
Todd Lester
,
Patrick M. Lydon
,
Patrice Milillo
and
Laura Shillington

Art, Awareness, Communities, Design, Graffiti, Participation/Democracy
2016 Jan

Greening Cities with an Urban Forest across Both Public and Private Domains

Meredith Dobbie

Awareness, Biodiversity, Design, Ecosystem services, Landscape, Livability, Trees
2016 Jan

Lessons from Tinseltown: Nature’s Role in Alleviating Homelessness

Rebecca Salminen Witt

Awareness, Communities, Ecocities, Housing, Justice, Livability, North America, Parks, Tools
2015 Dec

Highlights from The Nature of Cities in 2015

David Maddox

Africa, Architecture, Art, Asia, Australia & New Zealand, Awareness, Biodiversity, Biophilia, Climate change, Communities, Conservation, Design, Development, Disasters/Red zone, Experiencing Nature, Gardens, Justice, Livability, North America, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Policy, Resilience, South America, Tools, Water, What is urban nature?, Wildlife People Interactions
2015 Dec

An explicitly urban Sustainable Development Goal has been adopted by the UN (#11). Now what? Where could it go wrong?

Genie Birch
,
Ben Bradlow
,
William Dunbar
,
Peter Head
,
Mark Hostetler
,
Hui Ling Lim
,
Shuaib Lwasa
,
Jose Puppim
,
Andrew Rudd
,
Karen Seto
,
David Simon
,
Bolanle Wahab
and
Lorena Zárate

Awareness, Climate change, Development, Disasters/Red zone, Economics, Education, Health, Justice, Livability, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Sustainability, Tools, What is urban nature?
2015 Dec

Discounting Our Engagement and Betraying Our Affections for Urban Nature

Janice Astbury

Awareness, Communities, Gardens, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Policy, Value