{"id":46027,"date":"2021-01-31T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T14:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/?p=46027"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:00:00","slug":"stories-of-the-nature-of-cities-1-2-hour-episode-4-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/2021\/01\/31\/stories-of-the-nature-of-cities-1-2-hour-episode-4-oasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories of the Nature of Cities 1\/2 Hour\u2014Episode 4: Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Episode 4: Oasis<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\r\n

\u201cHappy Hour at the Green Man\u201d by Kate Wing<\/b>, read by Lucy Symons
<\/span><\/span>A small bar in the middle of the city has a portal to an ancient ghost forest.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u00a0\u201cWhere Grass Grows Greener\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/em>by\u00a0Jenni Juvonen<\/b><\/strong>, read by Nora Achrati
The narrator explores a forest and meets a fox<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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The stories are read, and then authors Kate and Jenni are joined for discussion by David Maddox.<\/div>\r\n
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\"\"<\/a>Nora Achrati<\/strong> is a voice actress based in Washington, DC.<\/div>\r\n
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\"\"<\/a>Voice over artist Lucy Symons<\/strong>\u00a0has had a varied and peripatetic life \u2013 spending a couple of decades on the continent of North America and an equal number in Britain.\u00a0<\/div>\r\n
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\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em> “Stories of the Nature of Cities 1\/2 Hour”<\/strong> is a monthly series of readings from TNOC’s collection of very short fiction about future cities. Each episode is 30 minutes and features two readings and then a conversation between the authors and an urban practitioner.<\/em> The stories are drawn from the book of flash fiction<\/a> (less than 1000 words) on future cities TNOC and partners created, called “A Flash of Silver Green”<\/a>.<\/i> Previously recorded Episodes can be explored also: https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/conversations\/<\/a><\/div>\r\n
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Banner image:<\/strong> Bamboo forest of Kyoto.<\/div>\r\n
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Episode 4: Oasis \u201cHappy Hour at the Green Man\u201d by Kate Wing, read by Lucy Symons A small bar in the middle of the city has a portal to an ancient ghost forest. \u00a0\u201cWhere Grass Grows Greener\u201d\u00a0by\u00a0Jenni Juvonen, read by Nora Achrati The narrator explores a forest and meets a fox.\u00a0 \u00a0 The stories are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":46034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,1211,1213],"tags":[],"coauthors":[361],"class_list":["post-46027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-stories-of-the-nature-of-cities-1-2-hour","category-upcoming-webinar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58133,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46027\/revisions\/58133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46027"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}