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  • October, 2024

    30 October 2024

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    A Tree Grows in Queens
    Magali Duzant, New York City

    In 2020, to halt the building of a logging road in Canada, a group of activists set up blockades to protect woodland in British Columbia. A Pacheedaht elder named Bill Jones was quoted in The Guardian as saying, “We must not stand down”. He went on to call ancient trees...

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    16 October 2024

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    Why I’m Voting for a Multispecies Future
    Christopher Kennedy, San Francisco

    The notion of giving voice to more-than-human communities has long been of interest to artists, activists, and change-makers worldwide. Though still emerging, movements like the rights of nature have increasingly advocated for granting natural entities—rivers, forests, ecosystems—legal standing, akin to the rights given to people or corporations. Over the past...

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    4 October 2024

    Two side by side Google Maps images. Left a dense forested aerial view. Right a crowded neighborhood with streets lined with houses
    We Need New Indicators to Understand Whether Greener Neighborhoods Reduce Obesity
    Takemi Sugiyama, Melbourne Manoj Chandrabose, Melbourne Nyssa Hadgraft, Melbourne Suzanne Mavoa, Melbourne

    Obesity imposes a heavy burden on individuals and societies (Boutari and Mantzoros, 2022). Since obesity is difficult to cure and often coexists with other chronic conditions, public health efforts to prevent obesity are needed (McNally, 2024). However, a strategy focusing on individuals, simply telling people to eat less and exercise...

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    September, 2024

    15 September 2024

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    On The Psychology of Trees and How to Change It
    Tim Beatley, Charlottesville

    I have come to believe that in the fight to save trees and forests in our cities, it is necessary to better understand what I am calling the “psychology of trees”, those factors and influences and patterns of thinking that affect the decisions individuals, developers, and even entire communities, make...

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    4 September 2024

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    Soft Animal
    Andreas Weber, Berlin

    Did you know that baby housemartins speak in their sleep? I did not ― until some nights ago in early July. I was walking down the deserted main road outside Varese Ligure, an old-fashioned Italian mountain town. It was the evening of the day I had arrived. Following the dimly...

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    August, 2024

    22 August 2024

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    Granularity, Dynamism, and Embodiment at The Nature of Cities Festival 2024
    Natalie Pierson, New York City

    I recently attended The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC Festival) in Berlin, Germany, where I hosted a session with colleagues on the Global Roadmap for the Nature-based solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA), a National Science Foundation research initiative co-led by the Urban Systems Lab. TNOC Festival uniquely...

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    6 August 2024

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    The Two Planets of Urban Heat
    Rob McDonald, Basel

    India is roasting, with some cities like Delhi pushing to almost 50 degrees C (122 degrees F). In India’s recent election, at least 33 poll workers died while doing mostly compulsory work to administer the election in sweltering polling places. All told, there have probably been thousands or tens of...

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    July, 2024

    30 July 2024

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    Connecting Nature and Culture in the Urbanising Global South: The Lakshmipuram Urban Cemetery, Bengaluru, India
    Seema Mundoli, Bangalore Harini Nagendra, Bangalore

    The word “cemetery” is derived from the Greek word ‘koimeterion’ meaning ‘dormitory’ or “resting place”. But cemeteries in cities can be more than resting sites for the deceased, or for their loved ones to visit and mourn. They are spaces that harbour a rich biodiversity including trees and plants of...

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    15 July 2024

    How Do Biophilic Design Approaches in Cafes and Restaurants in Buenos Aires Motivate Their Customers?
    Ana Faggi, Buenos Aires Regina Nabhen, Buenos Aires Patricia Frontera, Buenos Aires Ana Saez, Buenos Aires

    Human reconnection with Nature is one of the greatest challenges of architecture in the attempt to generate more livable cities in built environments. Among architects and designers, there were visionaries who sought to reflect an indivisible relationship between art, life, and nature in their compositions. One of them was Hundertwasser...

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    9 July 2024

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    Exploring the Diverse Contributions of Informality to Transformation in the Largest Cities of Africa
    Ibrahim Wallee, Accra

    In the dynamic landscape of Africa, a fascinating interplay unfolds between urban informality and the transformative promise of primate cities. Mark Jefferson defined a primate city in 1939 as the largest in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy: at least...

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    June, 2024

    30 June 2024

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    Kansai Walks: Landform as Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Ecology
    Brian McGrath, New York Yuji Hara, Wakayama Danai Thaitakoo, Bangkok

    Kansai is both an international airport built on an artificial island in Osaka Bay and an urban megaregion sprawling across Japan’s largest and most populous Honshu Island. But Kansai also affords countless walks in which to understand landform heritage and ecology. The Osaka Sea is embraced by two mountainous areas,...

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    May, 2024

    27 May 2024

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    How Much Water is There? Voices and Traces of Water as Perceived by Children and Young People in Bogotá
    Diana Wiesner, Bogota

    Lee esto en español. Over the course of a year, we embarked on an emotional and conceptual journey of exploration and reflection on water with two groups of young people and children living on the border between urban and rural areas in the hills of Bogotá. This experience led us...

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    12 May 2024

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    1.5°C Lifestyles and the City
    Raz Godelnik, Princeton Peleg Kremer, Princeton

    The imperative to mitigate global warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels necessitates substantial systemic changes in the Global North. While much attention has been directed towards clean energy transition and infrastructure investments, addressing unsustainable consumption habits has not received the priority it deserves. The growing challenges in...

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    April, 2024

    27 April 2024

    Dancing With Scientists
    Lindsay Campbell, New York Franklin Cruz, Denver

    Lindsay: I am co-principal Investigator on a USDA Forest Service (USFS) research project called “Fueling Adaptation” which is looking at wildfire communications, governance, and adaptation as part of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy.  This is work I co-lead with Miranda Mockrin (USFS) and Cody Evers (Portland State University). Our team of...

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    3 April 2024

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    Fight Fire With Fire … and Standards With Standards ― Building blocks for nature
    Gitty Korsuize, Utrecht

    A biking lane should measure 4.20 meters at minimum in the city of Utrecht. Sidewalks need to be 1.20 meters wide to make sure pedestrians and a person in a wheelchair can pass each other. For each house we build we add 0.78 parking spaces in the public domain. In...

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    March, 2024

    27 March 2024

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    Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing for Inclusive Cities
    Fadi Hamdan, Athens

    Background to the Sustainable Financing Gap Globally, challenges in making our cities resilient are multi-dimensional and are on the rise. According to the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals Report, over half of the global population currently resides in urban areas, a rate projected to reach 70% by 2050. Approximately 1.1 billion...

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    18 March 2024

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    What if Mobility Due to Climate Extremes Is a Crisis for Some but an Adaptation Measure for Others?
    Buyana Kareem, Kampala

    The United Nations Disaster Risk Agency holds that “displacement means situations where people are forced or obliged to leave their homes or places of habitual residence because of a disaster or to avoid the impact of an immediate and foreseeable natural hazard. Such displacement results from the fact that affected...

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    11 March 2024

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    Supporting Community Voices for Resiliency Actions
    Rob Pirani, New York

    Looking out from my office in lower Manhattan, preparations for rising seas and coastal storms are becoming real. As I type these words, construction crews are cutting scores of mature trees that once graced the local parks to make room for a system of about five-meter-high berms, flood walls, and...

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    February, 2024

    26 February 2024

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    Social Infrastructure in a Post-COVID World
    Laura Landau, New York

    Social infrastructure and so-called “third spaces” (the non-work, non-home gathering spaces ― either public or private ― like parks, libraries, houses of worship, and coffee shops where people spend time) are a crucial part of the lifeblood of civic life, particularly in cities. These are spaces where people come together,...

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    25 February 2024

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    Highlights from The Nature of Cities 2023
    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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