Air connectivity boosts urban attractiveness for global firms - Nature Cities Global air connectivity shapes where multinational firms locate subsidiaries, especially in knowledge-intensive sectors, by reducing coordination frictions. Eigenvector centrality emerges as the stron...

✈️ New #MITCRE research paper, 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗺𝘀, is now published in @nature.com 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 📄 Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 📰 Read on #MITNews: news.mit.edu/2026/fewer-l...
#NatureCities #UrbanEconomics #MITResearch #Aviation

This is very good news.

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#NatureCities #WellbeingEconomy #ClimateAdaptation

Putin pretends to care for Eastern Ukraine, which was under-expressed in Soviet Newsreel propaganda! Detail from Figure 1 in Tamm, Mikhail V., Mila Oiva, Ksenia D. Mukhina, Mark Mets, and Maximilian Schich. "City representation in Soviet propaganda and geographical biases in cultural data." Nature Cities (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00380-1 "Significantly over- and underrepresented cities, insignificantly over- and underrepresented cities and cities which are mentioned roughly as expected are shown with cyan, red, grey-cyan, grey-pink and grey circles, respectively. Cities in Moscow and Donbas regions are shown in smaller circles to reduce their overlap."

"Here we measured geographical biases in the representation of cities in a large Soviet news-media corpus..."

@cudanlab.bsky.social in #NatureCities @nature.com

#MikhailTamm, @mila-oiva.bsky.social, #KseniaMukhina,
@metsmark.bsky.social & @schichmax.bsky.social

Free read rdcu.be/e1UvJ

#Ukraine 🇺🇦

Urbanization signatures on climate and soils uncovered by crowd-sensed plants Nature Cities - This study finds that crowd-sensed plants as living sensors uncover climate and soil patterns in 326 European cities; extend the urban heat island effect to moisture, pH, salinity...

🌿🌆 Plants as sensors for cities

A new study rdcu.be/eZcDu published in #NatureCities shows how plants, using more than 80 million citizen science observations, reveal fine-scale climate and soil conditions across 326 European cities.

#Biodiversity #CitizenScience #ClimateChange #UrbanPlanning

Urbanization signatures on climate and soils uncovered by crowd-sensed plants Nature Cities - This study finds that crowd-sensed plants as living sensors uncover climate and soil patterns in 326 European cities; extend the urban heat island effect to moisture, pH, salinity...

🌿🌆 Pflanzen als Sensoren für Städte

Eine neue Studie rdcu.be/eZcDu in #NatureCities zeigt, wie Pflanzen mithilfe von über 80 Mio. Citizen-Science-Beobachtungen kleinräumige Klima- und Bodenbedingungen in 326 europäischen Städten sichtbar machen.
#UrbanEcology #Biodiversity #ClimateChange

These global cities are working to protect nature and biodiversity Rapid urbanization puts pressure on natural habitats in cities. Here’s how places including Belém, Durban and San Francisco are stepping up to protect their biodiversity.

@weforum.org reports on #cities making strides in #nature-positive changes including with multi-million $ investments:

🏙️🌳Barranquilla, Colombia

🏙️🌳Belem, Brazil

🏙️🌳Durban, South Africa

🏙️ 🌳San Francisco

Link: www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

#NatureAction #Nbs #NatureCities #BiodiversityAction 🌍

The photograph shows three women in colourful clothes wading in greyish green water on a sunny day. They are bent over to collect food from the floor of some drying wetlands in Kolkata (a megacity in India). The rocks and mud on the banks are grey-brown. It isn’t visible from the photo but the women are collecting small fish, snails and other aquatic foods. This image provides a glimpse into the everyday lives of urban household workers from a wetland in Kolkata on their way home. Image thanks to researcher Sukanya Basu.

Urban Blue Spaces: the overlooked rivers, lakes and wetlands in cities.

Researchers surveyed 1,200 people in 4 cities in India and found foraging to be widespread, providing valuable food, income, culture, connections: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

#NatureCities: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Urban Sprawl Could Deny 220 Million People Access To Clean Water By 2050 A study by CSH and the World Bank shows compact urban planning is crucial for delivering water and sanitation to growing populations.

Compact urban design is key to securing water and sanitation, a new study by CSH and the World Bank in #NatureCities shows. With horizontal city growth, 220M fewer people could have access to piped water and 190M to sewage by 2050, says lead author @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social

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Before and after photo of a street in London transformed from a concrete road into a green park.

Somewhere in #London Anyone know?
#OurWonderfulGreenFuture #NatureCities #Urbanism #ClimateChange

Our July issue is now live!
Explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the way cities operate, evolve, and serve their residents.
Cover image from Long et al. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#DgitialEra #UrbanTech #FutureCities #naturecities

Image of the cover of the journal. It shows and illuminated church behind a number of chairs and colorfully lit up umbrellas. Text: Volume 2 Issue 6, June 2025 Cities after dark The city never sleeps. Increasingly, urban research follows. Just as lights illuminate this view of Frauenkirche, in Dresden, Germany, studies by Kyba et al., Tardieu et al. and Meng et al. illuminate urban thinking through citizen science, urban planning and vegetation phenology, respectively. Elsewhere, Seijas argues that following nighttime governance, the next crucial step is to embrace a 24-hour cycle in urban governance, the next crucial step is to embrace a 24-hour cycle in urban governance. See Kyba, Tardieu, Meng, Seijas and Effenberger Image: Steffen Lohse-Koch. Cover design: Lauren Heslop

There are 8 #NightStudies articles in the new #NatureCities issue, here's a quick rundown.

First, an editorial from the journal about the importance of night in urban studies: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00272-4 (1/8)

7 ways to reduce the urban heat island effect With heatwaves in the news again, there’s been a bit of a wake-up call on the growing risk of heat. Cities will want to consider how resilient they are to the increasing threat of heatwaves a…

When considering heatwaves & buildings ~ Shade is an increasingly vital component in a changing climate 🌇🌳

#Architecture #Trees #NatureCities

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For anyone who has ever placed a discarded glass bottle into a bin 🚮 to help keep others safe ~ This film is dedicated to you, and the invaluable work done by #LitterPickers around the globe.

#NatureCleanups #NatureCities 👣🌳

The image shows a scientific graphic from the article, displaying the response types and actor types involved in adaption measures across the cities' income groups and regions.

📣 New paper in #NatureCities 📣

🌊 How do coastal cities adapt to #ClimateChange? Wannewitz et al. (2024) show: There are differences in scope, strategies & actors involved across coastal cities with different income levels. @natureportfolio.bsky.social

📄 Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...