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  • March, 2023

    6 March 2023

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    Greening the Streetscape: Tactical Urbanism in Munich
    Leoni Vollmann, Brussels

    Due to urban densification processes and increasing confrontation with climate change, cities face the need to organize their public space in efficient and sustainable ways that take current needs as well as those of future generations into account. The Green Infrastructure (GI) concept is a widely used concept, introducing various...

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    February, 2023

    27 February 2023

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    A Balcony Greenhouse: Food and Wellbeing in the City
    M'Lisa Colbert, Montreal

    Urban building codes and design standards play a crucial role in how a city adapts to contemporary challenges, like climate change and urbanization. I live in Montréal where, like many cities in the world, building codes largely came into force on account of two big urban phenomena: fire and disease....

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    20 February 2023

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    From Monopoly to Commonspoly: How Communities are Changing the Game
    Lorena Zárate, Ottawa Sophia Torres, Barcelona

      Playing games is a serious thing. Animals and humans learn how to relate with each other and with the world through games involving bodies and minds. Games provide a simplified way to understand complex issues, while at the same time broadening our perception of reality through multi-sensorial experiences. Playing...

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    13 February 2023

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    Ça Marche: Walking is Paramount to Human and Liveable Cities
    Francois Mancebo, Paris

    Sometimes — for a day, a week, or a month — Paris turns into the very kingdom of walkers. That is, during transit strikes, when subway trains and buses stop running. Millions of walkers flood the streets, as the Métro and bus network release the load of crowded bodies it...

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    6 February 2023

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    Caring in Public: Testing Our Framework with Different Social Infrastructure Sites and Systems (Part 2)
    Lindsay Campbell, New York Robin Cline, Chicago Laura Landau, New York Georgia Silvera Seamans, New York City Ben Helphand, Chicago Paola Aguirre, Chicago Sonya Sachdeva, Chicago Natalie Campbell, Washington D.C. Nora Almeida, New York City

    As part of The Nature of Cities Festival, on 29 March 2022, a team of practitioners and researchers at NeighborSpace, Borderless, and the USDA Forest Service – Northern Research Station organized a seed session, entitled “Caring in Public,” to explore the building blocks of social infrastructure with a group of...

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    6 February 2023

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    Caring in Public: A Framework for Social Infrastructure Visibility in Community-managed Open Space (Part 1)
    Lindsay Campbell, New York Robin Cline, Chicago Ben Helphand, Chicago Paola Aguirre, Chicago Sonya Sachdeva, Chicago Michelle Johnson, New York City Erika Svendsen, New York

    A team of practitioners and researchers at the Central Park Conservancy Institute for Urban Parks, NeighborSpace, Borderless, and USDA Forest Service – Northern Research Station met from September to November 2021 to discuss research on social infrastructure and urban green spaces, with the goal of translating academic literature into practical...

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    January, 2023

    30 January 2023

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    A Nonprofit Organization Creates Mini-forests in Public Schools in São Paulo Using the Miyawaki Method
    Rafael Ribeiro, São Paulo

    Formigas-de-embaúba carries out environmental education programs to plant native mini-forests in public schools together with school communities.  If you asked someone if they could imagine growing a forest from scratch, they would most likely say no. If you then asked them if they could grow a mini-forest of 500 m²...

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    23 January 2023

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    The Nature of Heritage: Rethinking Patrimonial Notions Towards Greener Urban Futures
    Fábio Gouveia, Brussels

    Urban green spaces often become entangled in notions of heritage. Multiple factors explain this convergence, from the historical origins of so many major urban green spaces, to the range of values (cultural, spiritual, etc.) that are tied to these places (see Feng & Tan, 2017; Forrest & Konijnendijk, 2005) and...

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    16 January 2023

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    Partnering With Fungi and Soil for Better Futures
    Toby Query, Portland

    Fungi, that bizarre kingdom that includes yeasts and mushrooms, can be partnered with for healthier outcomes in urban natural areas and landscapes. Fungi, which are not plants and are more related to animals, are masters of chemistry. Enzymes created by fungi have been found to digest cigarette butts, DDT, and...

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    8 January 2023

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    The Baltic Green: A Case Study of Children’s Access to Outdoor Play and Urban Nature in Liverpool City Centre
    Alice Sparks, Brussels

    “This is a crucial and much-neglected topic. If children are not designed into our cities, they are designed out. This means that they are deprived of contact with the material world, with nature, with civic life and with their own capacities.” George Monbiot (Arup, 2020, 15) 1 Where do children belong...

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    5 January 2023

    Highlights from The Nature of Cities 2022
    David Maddox, New York

    Cities should be collaborative creations, no? Various professions, ways of knowing, modes of action, governments, and the people that live there, work together (we hope) to build their city from their shared and often contested values. And we need to find greener routes to built cities for them to be...

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    2 January 2023

    Highlights from Ten Years at The Nature of Cities
    David Maddox, New York

    The Nature of Cities was launched 10 years ago, in June 2012. I believe it has been a success, with over four million reads and around 1,000 contributors. I believe it has been valuable in framing and propelling dialogue in its promotion of collaboration and transdisciplinarity that are essential to...

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    December, 2022

    20 December 2022

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    L’approche conceptuelle du Plan directeur de conservation, d’aménagement et de développement du parc Jean-Drapeau
    The Conceptual Approach of the Parc Jean-Drapeau’s Conservation, Planning, and Master Plan

    Jonathan Cha, Montreal

    Read in English. Retrouver le sens perdu et affirmer l’identité du parc Les parcs sont aujourd’hui une collection éclectique de strates de paysages aménagés et construits issus de multiples époques[1]. Autant pour ceux qui réalisent des parcs que ceux qui les conçoivent, il est à propos de se questionner sur...

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    12 December 2022

    We have had trouble getting people’s attention about climate change. Some climate activists glued themself to a van Gogh painting (and others). Is this helpful?
    Marina Alberti, Seattle Carmen Bouyer, Paris Bibi Calderaro, New York M'Lisa Colbert, Montreal Marcus Collier, Dublin Tim Collins, Glasgow Stuart Connop, London Edith de Guzman, Los Angeles Ben Davis, Brandon Paul Downton, Melbourne Alysha Farrell, Brandon Chisai Fujita, Kyoto Sumetee Gajjar, Cape Town Nancy Grimm, Phoenix David Haley, Walney Island Cecilia Herzog, Rio de Janeiro Cathel Hutchison, Glasgow Pantea Karimi, San Jose Christopher Kennedy, New York Robin Lasser, Oakland Lucie Lederhendler, Brandon Patrick M. Lydon, Daejeon Krystal C. Mack, Baltimore David Maddox, New York Claudia Misteli, Barcelona Nea Pakarinen, Freiburg Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, College Park Cristián Pietrapiana, New York Rob Pirani, New York Baixo Ribeiro, São Paulo Martin Rokitzki, Freiburg Andrew Rudd, New York City Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka, Te Whānganui-a-Tara Peter Schoonmaker, Beirut Ania Upstill, New York Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, Paris Domenico Vito, Milan

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    5 December 2022

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    Urban Greening Factor Gains Momentum
    Gary Grant, London

    What is it? City authorities around the world are looking for policies and tools to facilitate urban greening ― in particular, the process of bringing more soil, vegetation, and water into the built environment through the development planning system. In the UK, authorities are looking at the Urban Greening Factor...

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    November, 2022

    26 November 2022

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    Upside Down Nature: Musings of a Terrestrial Urban Ecologist ‘At Sea’
    Pippin Anderson, Cape Town

    I recently had the great pleasure and privilege of a holiday on a boat in the Maldives. I had never sailed before, and am by no means an ocean-going character (indeed I took a year of swimming lessons in anticipation of this holiday), so the whole experience of being at...

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    25 November 2022

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    Nature for All: How can we uproot structural inequity in the provision of nature and its benefits to people?
    Samarth Das, Mumbai Marthe Derkzen, Arnhem/Nijmegen Joost Gerretschen, Arnhem/Gelderland Rob McDonald, Basel Praneeta Mudaliar, Mississauga Stephanie Pincetl, Los Angeles Rebecca Rutt, Copenhagen Henriette Steiner, Copenhagen Huda Shaka, Dubai Ebony Walden, Richmond María Mejía, Bogotá Steward Pickett, Poughkeepsie Rebecca Bratspies, New York

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    9 November 2022

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    Greening Buildings and the Potential for More Biodiversity and Well-being in Switzerland
    Nathalie Baumann, Zurich Anke Domschky, Zurich

    Project study within the framework of the Swiss Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan Increasing building density is putting pressure on green spaces and thus on the living conditions for flora, fauna, and humans. However, the sixth IPPC report and the COVID-19 pandemic clearly show green spaces that enable recreation and the...

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    2 November 2022

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    Eco-Urbanism and Urban Resilience Become More Critical Against a Background of a Global War
    Fadi Hamdan, Athens

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated existing problems in global supply chains of two fundamental commodities, namely energy and food, which in turn are leading to soaring inflation. In response, several countries are abandoning their commitments made at the COP26 conference to reduce carbon emissions and instead going back to...

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    24 October 2022

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    They Didn’t Pave “Paradise”, They Ploughed It
    Lincoln Garland, Bath

    The Year 2007 marked the arrival of the Urban Millennium when most of the world’s population became urban for the first time in human history (UNDESA, 2009). The proportion is now at least 55% and the global urban population is predicted to increase by 2.5 billion over the next 30...

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