ESSAYS | POINTS OF VIEW
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The Additional Role of the Urban Beaches in the Face of Climate Change
Sun, sand, and sea tourism is one of the most popular and widespread types of tourism worldwide. It originated in the healing practices of the 19th century when high society traveled to the beach seeking the health benefits of contact with salt water and sun exposure (Fig. 1). At the beginning of the 20th century,…
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Recognizing Rights and Responsibilities for Plants in the Metropolis
The Landscape Lab, on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, is a stormwater management landscape designed that serves as stormwater infrastructure but also as a research and demonstration facility. The steep slopes of the catchment basins represent standard institutional landscape practice: plants are planted into holes in weed barrier fabric…
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Seeing Biocultural Mosaics: The Stewardship Salon Approach
It can be easy to remain in the bubble of your own perspective, thinking that one’s relationship to place might be a universal phenomenon. When the phenomenon, in fact, is the uniqueness of each person’s relationship to place, community, home, and their perspectives, cultures, and lived experiences that shape the relationship. This realization has been…
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ROUNDTABLES | GLOBAL DISCUSSIONS
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A new rurality is emerging—not nostalgic, but reinvented. Can we move beyond urban-rural divides and embrace the fluid, interwoven realities of today’s landscapes in ways that foster resilience, innovation, and equity?
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The Urban Art Laboratories: During The Nature of Cities Festival 2024, a series of conjunct artistic and ecological actions took place in various parts of the world. What happened?
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PROJECTS | ART, SCIENCE & ACTION, TOGETHER
TNOC FESTIVAL 2026
The journey to greener,
more inclusive cities
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SPROUT POETRY JOURNAL
ISSUE 4: CARE
This latest issue includes works that interrogate the modes of engaging with others in (urban and natural) space that can speak to the interrelated dimensions of care.
NBS COMICS: NATURE TO SAVE THE WORLD
26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
Now a global project with over ONE MILLION readers, we invite comic creators from all over the world to imagine comics about how people and nature might thrive together. Nature-based Solutions (NBS) Comics empowers creators to combine science and storytelling.
STORIES OF TNOC: VOLUME 2
Cheeky monkeys, vertical farms, climate change, and tree tribunals. Our latest collection features 49 short stories from 20 countries that radically re-imagine city life.
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THE NATURE OF GRAFFITI
This is the nature of graffiti. It facilitates speech. It speaks to us. It stakes claims and makes statements. It tells stories.
The Nature of Cities hosts a public gallery about the graffiti and street art that motivates us in public places.
REVERBERATIONS EXHIBITION
Close your eyes. What do you hear?
An exhibition exploring the elements through art, science, and sound, with over 30 contributors from various disciplines in a multimedia experience. Produced by the USDA Forest Service and The Nature of Cities.
THE JUST CITY ESSAYS
26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
Produced by The Nature of Cities, together with The J. Max Bond Center, and Next City, we ask what would a just city look like, and what could be strategies to get there? We raised these questions to architects, mayors, artists, doctors, designers, scholars, philanthropists, ecologists, urban planners, and community activists. Their responses came to us from 22 cities across five continents and myriad vantages.
