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31 January 2021

David Maddox, New York
Episode 4: Oasis “Happy Hour at the Green Man” by Kate Wing, read by Lucy Symons A small bar in the middle of the city has a portal to an...
18 January 2021

Bibi Calderaro, New York
Nicolas Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, New York
Ursula Heise, Los Angeles
Explore with us diverse and connecting threads in urban ecological arts. In the LEAF, three FRIEC Urban Arts Collective members share something from their ideas and work for 10 minutes...
9 December 2020

Tim Collins, Glasgow
Robin Lasser, Oakland
Wendy Wischer, Connecticut
Want to explore diverse and connecting threads in urban ecological arts? In the LEAF, three FRIEC Urban Arts Collective members share something from their ideas and work for 10 minutes each,...
18 November 2020

Ari Honarvar, San Diego
Michael Harris Cohen, Sofia
Laura Shillington, Montreal
Episode 3: Generations of Climate Change “A Child of the Oasis” by Ari Honavar, read by Nora AchratiA mother and daughter meet an undocumented refugee on their annual ride to the...
14 November 2020

Christina Freeman, New York
Lucie Lederhendler, Brandon
Paula Nishijima, Diemen
Want to explore diverse and connecting threads in urban ecological arts? In the LEAF, three FRIEC Urban Arts Collective members share something from their ideas and work for 10 minutes each,...
8 October 2020

Olive Bieringa, Oslo
Matthew Jensen, New York
Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, Paris
Want to explore diverse and connecting threads in urban ecological arts? In the LEAF, three FRIEC Urban Arts Collective members share something from their ideas and work for 10 minutes each,...
7 October 2020

Alyssa Eckles Alyssa Eckles, Cleveland
Rym Kechacha, Norwich
Episode 2—Sea Level Rise The read stories are Rym Kechacha’s “Old Father Thames” and Alyssa Eckles’ “Uolo and the Idol”. The Stories are first read, then authors Rym and Alyssa...
16 October 2016

Philip Silva, New York
David Maddox, New York
Story Notes: More and more cities throughout the world are turning to parks, gardens, green roofs, and other kinds of “green infrastructure” to soak up storm water and simultaneously create vibrant...
11 September 2016

Philip Silva, New York
David Maddox, New York
Story Notes: A casual chat on a bus nearly thirty years ago led to the improbable removal of a major elevated highway and the restoration of a beloved river in...
10 August 2016

Philip Silva, New York
David Maddox, New York
Also available at iTunes. Story Notes: House sparrows, rock pigeons, and red-tailed hawks are three bird species that have successfully—and very visibly—adapted to life in cities. Yet as the number and...
22 June 2016

Philip Silva, New York
David Maddox, New York
Also available at iTunes. Story Notes: Andy Hernandez walked into Washington Square Park on a sunny afternoon in 1981 with a cameraman, a boom box, and a mandate to make a music...
12 May 2016

Philip Silva, New York
David Maddox, New York
Also available at iTunes. Story notes: The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn is well known throughout New York City as a nearly two-mile-long trench filled with sewage and chemicals left behind by years...
29 February 2016

Philip Silva, New York
David Maddox, New York
Also available at iTunes. Story notes: Federal regulations make clean drinking something close to a guaranteed right for residents of cities in the United States, but not all urban water systems are...
25 February 2016

Jennifer Baljko, Barcelona
Also available at iTunes. Story notes: I am Jenn Baljko, and my partner Lluís and I started walking from Bangkok, Thailand, back home to Barcelona, Catalonia. Along the 12,000km journey, we’ll explore the idea...
13 May 2015

Jennifer Baljko, Barcelona
David Maddox, New York
Also available at iTunes. Story notes: (See the companion essay here.) Bees have always been a part of the city landscape. But something is happening in the world today that’s making their...
15 April 2015

David Maddox, New York
Also available at iTunes. Story notes: Marianne Krasny and Keith Tidball of Cornell’s Civic Ecology Lab convened a workshop in Annapolis Maryland, at the offices of The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, or...
30 March 2015

David Maddox, New York
Also available at iTunes. Story notes: A conversation about civic ecology between Lance Gunderson, a landscape ecologist from Emory University in Atlanta; Caroline Lewis, of Climate Leadership Engagement Opportunities, or CLEO, in Miami;...
8 February 2015

David Maddox, New York
Also available at iTunes. Story notes: Cities face many challenges with competing solutions: climate change, economic inequality, lack of access to resources and opportunities, and social and political conflict. Can...
9 January 2015

David Maddox, New York
Also available at iTunes. Story notes: The Nature of Cities was invited to create a session at the 2014 Smart Cities Expo in Barcelona: “Participation and the Role of Green and...