Pub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1038/s44284-024-00154-1
Christof Brandtner, Krystal Laryea, Gowun Park, Wei Luo, Michael Meyer, David Suárez, Hokyu Hwang, Walter W. Powell
Organizational practices, such as interacting with and advocating for constituents or engaging in event hosting and collaboration, are critical to integration—creating connections across lines of difference. However, these practices are unevenly distributed across neighborhoods and shaped by neighborhood characteristics. Here, connecting organizational and neighborhood-level data, this study explores how neighborhood affluence (income) and heterogeneity (migrant population share) affect the integrative practices among civil society organizations. Using unique survey data from five global cities, we analyze the organizational practices of 863 civil society organizations in 536 neighborhoods. We find that social integration practices—connecting people to each other—are more prevalent in poorer neighborhoods. Conversely, systemic integration practices—connecting people and organizations to other organizations in the ecosystem—are more common in heterogeneous neighborhoods, especially when they are affluent. These findings shed light on the role of organizations in promoting social cohesion and economic development as well as disparities in integrative practices among neighborhoods. To understand how organizations produce urban integration, that is, connections across lines of difference, Brandtner et al. conducted a survey of 863 civil society organizations in five global cities: San Francisco, Seattle, Shenzhen, Sydney and Vienna. They find that neighborhood income and the share of migrant populations are associated with whether organizational practices aim at connecting people or institutions.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1038/s44284-024-00155-0
Floris Vermeulen
Urban inequality is rising, but neighborhood organizations can help to resist this problem. A groundbreaking study of the effects that neighborhoods have on civil society organizations shares data and insights to combat uneven resource distribution in cities.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1038/s44284-024-00134-5
Alex Putzer
{"title":"Data from and for more-than-humans","authors":"Alex Putzer","doi":"10.1038/s44284-024-00134-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-024-00134-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 2","pages":"124-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143555222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1038/s44284-024-00152-3
Lisa Palmer
The popular concept of using technology to improve urban life gained traction over a decade ago. But researchers and practitioners say that the focus has shifted from big cities to small cities that are transforming organizational structures and implementing new technologies.
{"title":"How small but smart cities are changing the way data and decisions are influencing urban life","authors":"Lisa Palmer","doi":"10.1038/s44284-024-00152-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-024-00152-3","url":null,"abstract":"The popular concept of using technology to improve urban life gained traction over a decade ago. But researchers and practitioners say that the focus has shifted from big cities to small cities that are transforming organizational structures and implementing new technologies.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 2","pages":"107-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143555227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We all need a piazza","authors":"Cindy Skach","doi":"10.1038/s44284-024-00144-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-024-00144-3","url":null,"abstract":"City piazzas, physical centers of civic life, are back again as both characteristic of and essential to democratic practice, argues Cindy Skach.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"1 11","pages":"718-719"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1038/s44284-024-00165-y
Laura Young, Sarah Crowe, Sue Dawson, Husam AlWaer, Rebecca Wade
{"title":"Polls, planning and the potential for people and planet","authors":"Laura Young, Sarah Crowe, Sue Dawson, Husam AlWaer, Rebecca Wade","doi":"10.1038/s44284-024-00165-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-024-00165-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"1 12","pages":"802-803"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1038/s44284-024-00146-1
Meirong Su
Cities support our production and daily life and carry our joys and sorrows. Researcher, resident and traveler Meirong Su expresses her concern about the gradual loss of urban personality during continuous urban construction and proposes that we should care for cities like we care for our children.
{"title":"Constructing cities like cultivating our children","authors":"Meirong Su","doi":"10.1038/s44284-024-00146-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-024-00146-1","url":null,"abstract":"Cities support our production and daily life and carry our joys and sorrows. Researcher, resident and traveler Meirong Su expresses her concern about the gradual loss of urban personality during continuous urban construction and proposes that we should care for cities like we care for our children.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"1 11","pages":"720-721"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1038/s44284-024-00141-6
Qiyang Liu
Just as people come of age, so do cities. Reflecting on his own history, researcher Qiyang Liu explores the changing face of China’s cities and reflects on the human price of urban progress.
{"title":"Mercy for growing cities in China","authors":"Qiyang Liu","doi":"10.1038/s44284-024-00141-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-024-00141-6","url":null,"abstract":"Just as people come of age, so do cities. Reflecting on his own history, researcher Qiyang Liu explores the changing face of China’s cities and reflects on the human price of urban progress.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"1 11","pages":"800-800"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The beautification of urban facades in China often includes covers for the outdoor units of air conditioners. Although these covers improve cityscapes, they reduce cooling efficiency, increase noise pollution, risk system failures and embody carbon emissions. A call urges rethinking their necessity, and presses for sustainable, efficient design to counteract extreme heat.
{"title":"The hidden costs of concealing outdoor air conditioning units","authors":"Wei Wang, Yuwen Deng, Jiyuan Wu, Zhe Wang, Hailu Wei, Qinran Hu, Tianzhen Hong, Tao Qian","doi":"10.1038/s44284-024-00148-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-024-00148-z","url":null,"abstract":"The beautification of urban facades in China often includes covers for the outdoor units of air conditioners. Although these covers improve cityscapes, they reduce cooling efficiency, increase noise pollution, risk system failures and embody carbon emissions. A call urges rethinking their necessity, and presses for sustainable, efficient design to counteract extreme heat.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"1 11","pages":"722-724"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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