#TNOCessay Framing the Future: Voices and Visions of Youth in Puerto Rico

17 students in San Juan didn’t just document their city—
they reimagined it.

📘 Digital book + 🖼️ community exhibit
🌱 Youth shaping urban futures

Read here🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/03...

#YouthVoices

#TNOCEssay Street Tree Tarot is a Tool for Storytelling, Connection, and Reflection. By Matthew López-Jensen and Lindsay Campbell

And once you start noticing… the city starts asking something back.

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#UrbanNature #StreetTrees

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When Cities Fragment Care: Homeless youth, mental health, substance use, and the spaces between systems
by Manasi Kumar and Deborah Padgett

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#Cities #UrbanJustice

#TNOCessay Learning Climate Lessons from My 5-Year-Old — Lindsay Campbell (New York City)

What can a five-year-old teach us about climate change?

Sometimes the most meaningful climate lessons begin with a child’s question.

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#TNOCessay Urban Mini-forests Can Reinvent How Cities Grow, Learn, and Respond to Climate Stress
Rafael Ribeiro & Sheila Ceccon — São Paulo

What if climate resilience started with tiny forests in schoolyards and vacant lots?

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#UrbanNature #MiniForests #NbS

#TNOCEssay From living in nature → to living as nature.
A call to step outside, learn with First Nations, and create new urban rituals of care for the more-than-human city. 🌱

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#UrbanBiodiversity #MoreThanHumanCities

From alleyway games to play among ruins, this powerful essay reflects on childhood, memory, and the right to safe public space in a city rebuilding itself.

When children can play freely again, a city begins to heal.
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#TNOCessay #ChildFriendlyCities #PublicSpace #Damascus

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What if cemeteries could also support biodiversity and community wellbeing?

May East explores how burial grounds are being reimagined as living urban commons.

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Have you visited a place like this?

New #TNOCessay
Laura Shillington asks: what happens when students trust AI more than their own senses?
A sharp, honest reflection on education, GenAI, curiosity & being human in a techno-social-natural world. 🌱📱
www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/01...

How Artists Help to Transform Natural Resources Management: Building a Theory of Change
A coral essay by 7 voices across Glasgow, New York & Amsterdam.

Not about linear solutions — but trust, time, imagination, and working with complexity.

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Carly Ziter reflects on returning to her hometown of Windsor and discovering how cities, even those shaped by industrial mythologies, can begin to repair, resist, and re-imagine their relationship with nature.

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What if restoring nature in cities means more than parks and resilience plans?
What if it means decolonizing how we think about land, nature, and power?

This #tnocessay traces NY colonial roots to ask a bigger question—how can cities learn again to live with nature, not against it?

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Collserola once framed Barcelona — now it’s a “green island” surrounded by the metropolis. A global paradox emerges: cities depend on forests, yet urban growth threatens them.

From California to Nairobi, the challenges are shared.

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What if cities stopped seeing green spaces as a burden and started seeing them as an invitation to nurture life?

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#urbanecology #greeninfrastructure #cities #biodiversity #stewardship

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Revisiting “The Elephant and the Ant” by María Aragão

As cities continue to grow, how can seeing the urban environment as an ecosystem — where balance matters — help us build more sustainable futures?

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What happens when public servants walk rivers, dunes, and imagine their city in 2035?

Two NbS workshops in Curitiba & Florianópolis show how imagination + lived experience can spark real urban transformation.

How would YOU reimagine your city?

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#NbS #UrbanResilience

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What happens when you ask people around the world to photograph the outdoor places that keep them healthy?
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#UrbanNature #HealthyCities #Photovoice #NatureForHealth #TNOC

What Remains?
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Climate grief becomes memory and monument in Ghost Ships and Mourning Doves, the haunting exhibition by Robin Lasser and Sydney Brown at Chung 24 Gallery. What do we carry forward as the planet changes?

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Canada’s Great Lakes Waterfront Trail links 170+ communities & First Nations along 2,250 miles of freshwater.
Now, 8 U.S. states are creating a companion trail — together forming a cross-border path of nature, people & shared waters.

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Only 32.6% of environmental groups in Ontario include justice in their mission.

For co-author Tasmia, this wasn’t a statistic — it was personal. Feeling unseen in environmental spaces made her ask: What if environmentalism began by asking who belongs?

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The Youth Advocacy Playbook: How Youth Mobilize Knowledge for a #FossilFreeFuture Praneeta Mudaliar—Mississauga, Canada

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#ClimateJustice #YouthVoices #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateActio

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Detroit is not empty.
A participatory (counter) mapping workshop revealed the city’s networks of care, connection, and nature, challenging old narratives of “vacancy.”

How can mapping become a tool for empowerment and belonging, not exclusion?

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Learning to Appreciate the Abundance (and Scarcity) of Water

In his essay, Tim Beatley draws us into Santa Fe’s ancient acequia tradition—water ditches governed by neighbors, cleaned by hands, and honored as a shared common.

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City Leaders Featured Once Again by the Convention on Wetlands
María Mejía—Bogotá

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#UrbanWetlands #Cities4Nature #WetlandCity

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Tranquil City’s Guidebook to City Greening: The mission to ensure urban greening research is accessible for all

How can we make urban greening truly inclusive and evidence-based?

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#UrbanGreening #NatureBasedSolutions #GreenCities

#ThrowbackThursday #tnocessayrevisit

The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence… and lawns aren’t really “green” in a sustainability sense either.

So what explains their enduring popularity?

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#urbangreenspaces

#TNOCEssay The Summer Itself
Andreas Weber — Berlin

Once, summer meant flickers of green and sparks of crimson — burnet moths rising like tiny flames from wildflowers.

Read this beautiful essay and be moved by its sensibility, rich imagery, and lived experience →
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Dust, Water, Memory: Listening to Alwar’s Forgotten Wells
—Arvind Lakshmisha, Bangalore & Siya Bhatia, Alwar

This essay listens to the stones, the people, and the water—asking what it takes to truly restore a landscape

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#WaterHeritage #UrbanNature

🎶 “For our Gardens make us strong!” — Elizabeth Frickey
Community gardens as living soundscapes: joy, protest, music, birdsong.

Gardens that refuse silence — because a silent garden is a threatened one.

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#TNOCEssay #UrbanGardens #RightToTheCity #NYC

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Art That Moves Cities: How Creativity Revives Place and Spirit
Ebony Walden—Richmond

Art is not a luxury. It is infrastructure: essential to how communities breathe life into cities, tell their stories, and reimagine their future.

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#ArtInCities