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    5 May 2023

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    The Elephant and the Ant
    María Aragão

    As urbanization intensifies around the world, and the devastating effects of global warming are increasingly evident, it is vital to promote urban ecosystems as a tool to achieve ecological balance within the city. Urban ecosystems are the base to guarantee healthy and sustainable places to live, work and visit. Urban...

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    April, 2023

    24 April 2023

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    Pinamar: A Garden City Looking Towards a Sustainable Future
    Ana Faggi, Buenos Aires Maria Samanta Anguiano, Pinamar

    In Argentina, as a long weekend arrives many people living in the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires flee from the concrete and asphalt in search of Nature. There are many destination possibilities, but one that is undoubtedly a favorite is a garden city, 370 km south of Buenos Aires, which...

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    17 April 2023

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    Urban Biodiversity Justice
    Scott Kellogg, Albany

    According to modernist philosophy, cities are “human only” spaces built by and for the exclusive use of homo sapiens ― clean, sterile, artifacts of human imagination that symbolize humanity’s separation from nature. Aside from cultivated garden plants and a handful of companion or work animals whose presence is tolerated, non-human...

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    11 April 2023

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    Explaining the Housing Crisis with the Theory of Constraints
    Mathieu Hélie, Montréal

    How economic flows and bottlenecks affect urban growth When we encounter a contradiction, it’s very likely that we are facing an unresolved “problem of organized complexity,” to paraphrase Jane Jacobs. Such is the situation with the crisis of urban home affordability and NIMBYism, where everyone agrees that the supply of...

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    3 April 2023

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    What Futures for Nature in Cities?
    Perrine Hamel, Singapore

    Over the last few months, the metaverse has captured the attention of many professionals, including urban planners. While some may fear a Spielberg-like scenario where we stop caring for our physical world, we can also think of the metaverse as a gateway to inclusion ― where most people could help...

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    March, 2023

    27 March 2023

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    Naming Gotham: What I Learned About the Place Names of New York City
    Rebecca Bratspies, New York

    I spent the last few years working on and off on a book that I tentatively titled Who Was That Major Deegan Anyway? That title reflected the book’s origin story. My husband Allen and I used to get stuck in traffic on the Major Deegan every time we tried to...

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    18 March 2023

    Paying Attention to Make Art: Twenty-nine Reflections on the Harrisons
    Chris Fremantle, Ayrshire, Scotland Anne Douglas, Aberdeen

    The Harrisons (Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018) and Newton Harrison (1932-2022)) are widely acknowledged as pioneers in bringing together art and ecology into a new form of practice. They worked for over fifty years with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners, and other artists to initiate collaborative dialogues. The works they made...

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    18 March 2023

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    Paying Attention to Make Art: Twenty-nine voices on the legacy of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison
    Salma Arastu, Berkeley Brandon Ballengée, Arnaudville Ruby Barnett, Santa Cruz Barbara Benish, Santa Cruz Lewis Biggs, Shanghai Reiko Goto Collins, Glasgow Tim Collins, Glasgow David Haley, Walney Island Janeil Engelstad, Tacoma Les Firbank, Leeds Cathy Fitzgerald, Hollywood forest Chris Fremantle, Ayrshire, Scotland Johan Gielis, Antwerpen Terike Haapoja, New York John Hyatt, Liverpool Petra Kruse, Bonn JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Santa Barbara Aviva Rahmani, New York Simon Read, London Leslie Ryan, Santa Cruz Jamie Saunders, Leeds Richard Scott, Liverpool Ranil Senanayake, Davis Richard Sharland, Altarnun Beth Stephens, Santa Cruz Ruth Wallen, San Diego Mali Wu, Kaohsiung YangkuraKai Reschke, Bonn Anne Douglas, Aberdeen Tatiana Sizonenko, San Diego Helen & Newton Harrison

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    13 March 2023

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    The Tale of Lawns: The Story of Class, Deserts, and Potential
    Alicja Wójcik, Brussels

    What connects all upper-middle-class houses, public institutions’ buildings, stadiums, and golf fields? A hint: it is aesthetic, it is high-maintenance, and it is a prime example of a single species use. The answer is ― the lawn. The history of lawns goes back to the late Middle Ages, and is,...

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    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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    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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