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People Love Nature, Even When It Hurts
Love, a complex and profoundly influential emotion, has been widely explored in a variety of academic fields including sociology, psychology, anthropology, as well as human and physical geography. In geography, love is explored in several ways, including love of place and of nature (tophilia and biophilia) (see Tuan, 1974 and Wilson, 1986, Faggi, 2024). Love … Continue reading People Love Nature, Even When It Hurts
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Re-envisioning the Green Belt for Biodiversity, Recreational Access, and Climate Resilience
The UK’s new Labour-led government has pledged to tackle the country’s long-standing housing crisis head-on, with a bold promise to deliver 1.5 million new homes in the next five years. This plan comes in response to the mounting pressures of soaring demand, limited housing supply, and ever-increasing prices that have left many struggling to find … Continue reading Re-envisioning the Green Belt for Biodiversity, Recreational Access, and Climate Resilience
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CARE: The Introduction to SPROUT Eco-Urban Poetry Journal Issue 4
Each time our editorial team gathers to publish an issue of SPROUT, we reflect on the role of poetry to comment on the current state of the eco-urban. When we read through the submissions, we feel that our original vision and mandate for the journal is confirmed by the special kind of sustained attention—a specific … Continue reading CARE: The Introduction to SPROUT Eco-Urban Poetry Journal Issue 4
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Cities and communities that are better for nature and all people, through transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration.
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TNOC FESTIVAL 2024
The Distance
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The Nature of Cities Festival, is an event that uniquely blends elements of a conference, art exhibition, and retreat, all centered on urban nature.
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 contest 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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