Governance – Page 2 – The Nature of Cities

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Kurdish (Kurmanji)

Myanmar (Burmese)

Scottish Gaelic

2017 Nov

Let go of some urban domestication: How would you convince the mayor to re-wild the city?

Juan Azcarate
,
Keith Bowers
,
Katrine Claassens
,
Don Dearborn
,
Ian Douglas
,
Ana Faggi
,
Lincoln Garland
,
Amy Hahs
,
Mark Hostetler
,
Keitaro Ito
,
Louise Lezy-Bruno
,
Jala Makhzoumi
,
Juliana Montoya
,
Daniel Phillips
,
Mohan Rao
,
Kevin Sloan
and
Kati Vierikko

Biodiversity, Biophilia, Ecosystem services, Experiencing Nature, Governance, Health, Landscape, Livability, Stewardship, What is urban nature?
2017 Nov

Re-naturing Cities: Theories, Strategies and Methodologies

Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira
,
Heather Rumble
,
Mark Goddard
,
Fabio Angeoletto
,
Pedro Britto
,
Silvio Caputo
,
Stuart Connop
,
Karla Emmanuela Ribeiro Hora
,
Caroline Nash
and
Braulio Romeiro

Awareness, Biodiversity, Climate change, Communities, Conservation, Culture, Design, Development, Economics, Ecosystem services, Governance, Green Infrastructure, Justice, Planning, Policy, Resilience, South America, Sustainability, Tools, Value, What is urban nature?
2017 Oct

To Create a Movement to Repair & Unify our Fragmented & Disfunctional Urban Landscapes

PK Das

Asia, Awareness, Communities, Design, Development, Economics, Governance, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Sustainability, Value
2017 Aug

Turning Rio Upside Down! The Baixo Rio Neighborhood Project

Cecilia Herzog

Biophilia, Communities, Culture, Design, Development, Governance, Green Infrastructure, Justice, Livability, Planning, Policy, Pollution, South America, Water, What is urban nature?
2017 Aug

Black Cockatoo Rising: The Struggle to Save the Bushland in the City

Tim Beatley

Biodiversity, Communities, Conservation, Culture, Development, Ecosystem services, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Experiencing Nature, Governance, Justice, Networks, Participation/Democracy, What is urban nature?, Wildlife People Interactions
2017 Jul

Look More Closely, Think More Deeply: Experiences from the 2017 US Forest Service International Urban Forestry Seminar

Adrina Bardekjian

Art, Awareness, Children, Communities, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Experiencing Nature, Food, Gardens, Governance, Justice, Policy, Resilience, Sustainability, What is urban nature?
2017 May

Trees Are More than Just Trees: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Christine Thuring

Ecosystem services, Governance, Justice, Participation/Democracy, Policy, Pollution, Tools, Trees
2017 May

To whom does a city’s nature belong? Is it a common pool resource, or a public good? And who decides?

Amita Baviskar
,
Lindsay Campbell
,
James Connolly
,
Sheila Foster
,
Phil Ginsburg
,
Jeff Hou
,
Marianne Krasny
,
Mary Mattingly
,
Oona Morrow
,
Harini Nagendra
,
Raul Pacheco-Vega
,
Michael Sarbanes
,
Philip Silva
and
Diana Wiesner

Communities, Ecosystem services, Gardens, Gentrification, Governance, Green Infrastructure, Health, Housing, Justice, Livability, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Policy, Pollution, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams, What is urban nature?
2017 Mar

Are We Truly Connected in Today’s High Frequency World?

Chantal van Ham

Biophilia, Climate change, Conservation, Culture, Europe, Governance, History, North America, Participation/Democracy, Policy, Tradition
2017 Mar

Managing Informal Markets and Limiting Citizen Marginalization

Jennifer Baljko

Business, Economics, Governance, Justice, Policy, Transportation
2017 Mar

Bishkek: Building on Old Bones

Jennifer Baljko

Asia, Development, Governance, History, Livability, Participation/Democracy, Planning, What is urban nature?
2017 Feb

Poems Have the Power to Elucidate New Urban Futures

Laura Booth

Art, Awareness, Governance, Justice, North America, Participation/Democracy, Politics, Tools
2017 Feb

How Do We Get the Private Sector to “Walk the Walk” on the SDG for Cities?

Buyana Kareem

Africa, Business, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Governance, Housing, Justice, Policy, Resilience, Sustainability
2017 Feb

Five Reasons to Conserve Nature in Kampala

Shuaib Lwasa

Conservation, Ecosystem services, Governance, Health, Livability, Networks, Planning, Trees
2017 Jan

Enforcing Good Corporate Governance in Disaster Risk Management is a Must

Fadi Hamdan

Climate change, Disasters/Red zone, Governance, Justice, Planning, Policy, Resilience
2017 Jan

Beyond the City

Naomi Tsur

Development, Ecosystem services, Food, Governance, Middle East, Networks, Planning, Policy, Value
2017 Jan

Resolving to Act After the 2016 U.S. Election and the United Nations Climate Conference

Franco Montalto
and
Hugh Johnson

Climate change, Economics, Governance, Participation/Democracy, Policy, Sustainability
2016 Dec

We Need to Think Trashy Thoughts

Valerie Gwinner

Africa, Economics, Europe, Governance, Health, Infrastructure, Justice, Sustainability, Waste
2016 Dec

History’s Peak: A Long View of the Nature of Cities

Eric Sanderson

Climate change, Communities, Economics, Governance, History, Livability, Sustainability, Urbanization
2016 Dec

Climate Resilience Means Meaningfully Engaging Vulnerable Communities in Urban Planning Processes

Zoé Hamstead
,
Timon McPhearson
and
Adam Glenn

Climate change, Communities, Disasters/Red zone, Governance, Health, Livability, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Resilience
2016 Nov

Uses and Abuses of Preservation

Mathieu Hélie

Architecture, Coasts, Culture, Design, Governance, History, Housing, Parks, Planning, Preservation
2016 Oct

Building Urban Science to Achieve the New Urban Agenda

Timon McPhearson
,
Sue Parnell
,
David Simon
,
Thomas Elmqvist
,
Xuemei Bai
,
Owen Gaffney
,
Debra Roberts
and
Aromar Revi

Governance, Habitat III, Justice, Policy, Resilience, Sustainability, Tools, What is urban nature?
2016 Oct

Viola Has an Acorn in Her Pocket

Stephan Barthel

Biophilia, Children, Experiencing Nature, Governance, Habitat III, Media, Smart Cities, Tools, Value
2016 Oct

Habitat III is finally a reality. From your perspective, what would be the single most important tangible outcome (not output) of the event—short or long term—and what will it take to achieve this outcome?

Yunus Arikan
,
Xuemei Bai
,
Genie Birch
,
Maruxa Cardama
,
Bharat Dahiya
,
PK Das
,
David Dodman
,
William Dunbar
,
Anjali Mahendra
,
Jose Puppim
,
David Satterthwaite
,
Huda Shaka
,
David Simon
,
Pengfei XIE
and
Lorena Zárate

Climate change, Development, Economics, Governance, Habitat III, Housing, Indigenous peoples, Justice, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Policy, Sustainability
2016 Sep

The Promise of the Big City: Migrants and Refugees Will Come to Your City. It’s Not a Novel Idea, but Cities Act Like it Is

Jennifer Baljko

Asia, Communities, Development, Economics, Governance, Jobs, Livability, Sustainability
2016 Sep

Welcome to Beijing? The Migrant Population is Critical to Building an Inclusive Beijing

Pengfei XIE

Asia, Culture, Economics, Governance, Justice, Livability, Planning
2016 Sep

The Rivers Have Called Upon Us

Niki Singleton

Ecosystem services, Governance, Indigenous peoples, Justice, Participation/Democracy, Politics, Pollution, What is urban nature?
2016 Aug

Farmers, Chefs, and Lawyers: Building an Ecology of One

Patrick M. Lydon

Agriculture, Biodiversity, Communities, Economics, Governance, Health, Livability, Participation/Democracy, Patrick M. Lydon, Policy
2016 Aug

What are the unifying elements of an urban ecology of the Global South and geographic south? Are they different than those in the north?

Pippin Anderson
,
Olga Barbosa
,
Timothy Bonebrake
,
Bharat Dahiya
,
Ana Faggi
,
Sabina Caula
,
Shuaib Lwasa
,
Fadi Hamdan
,
Yvonne Lynch
,
Colin Meurk
,
Sue Parnell
,
Steward Pickett
,
Luis Sandoval
,
Seth Schindler
and
Tan Puay Yok

Biodiversity, Development, Ecosystem services, Governance, Infrastructure, Justice, Livability, Policy, Sustainability
2016 Jul

Unbounding Aboriginal and Settler Urban Natures

Laura Shillington

Culture, Experiencing Nature, Governance, History, Indigenous peoples, Justice, Policy, What is urban nature?