Pub Date : 2025-10-13DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00332-9
Lauren Porter, Franziska B. Bucka, Natalie Páez-Curtidor, Monika Egerer, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
As urban populations grow, planners must create sustainable, yet multifunctional city spaces. Urban soils are vital for green city initiatives, providing essential ecosystem services. Our research challenges the unsustainable practice of land-take and explores constructing (multi)functional soils from mineral and organic parent materials of the urban waste stream. We stack different qualities of organic amendments in innovative mixtures constructed of upcycled mineral soils from local construction projects to assess their potential in maximizing multiple ecosystem services within a constructed soil. Using key soil health indicators, we identify synergies for the parent material mixtures providing essential functions for urban soils: fertility for urban green, runoff infiltration, stormwater contaminant immobilization and stable carbon accrual. The highest joint multifunctionality is obtained by mixing organic amendments of varying qualities and reactivities. Soil-designing practitioners should be knowledgeable of their city’s regional geology, as the effectiveness of amendment mixtures depends on interactions with the geogenic materials. Soils underlie cities and are foundational to parks and other green infrastructure, but urban soils are often polluted or otherwise unsuitable. This study tests the potential for combining sediment construction wastes with high-carbon organic amendments, identifying mixtures that provide essential urban soil functions.
{"title":"Constructing (multi)functional soil using urban organic and sediment wastes","authors":"Lauren Porter, Franziska B. Bucka, Natalie Páez-Curtidor, Monika Egerer, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00332-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00332-9","url":null,"abstract":"As urban populations grow, planners must create sustainable, yet multifunctional city spaces. Urban soils are vital for green city initiatives, providing essential ecosystem services. Our research challenges the unsustainable practice of land-take and explores constructing (multi)functional soils from mineral and organic parent materials of the urban waste stream. We stack different qualities of organic amendments in innovative mixtures constructed of upcycled mineral soils from local construction projects to assess their potential in maximizing multiple ecosystem services within a constructed soil. Using key soil health indicators, we identify synergies for the parent material mixtures providing essential functions for urban soils: fertility for urban green, runoff infiltration, stormwater contaminant immobilization and stable carbon accrual. The highest joint multifunctionality is obtained by mixing organic amendments of varying qualities and reactivities. Soil-designing practitioners should be knowledgeable of their city’s regional geology, as the effectiveness of amendment mixtures depends on interactions with the geogenic materials. Soils underlie cities and are foundational to parks and other green infrastructure, but urban soils are often polluted or otherwise unsuitable. This study tests the potential for combining sediment construction wastes with high-carbon organic amendments, identifying mixtures that provide essential urban soil functions.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 11","pages":"1071-1083"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00332-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145533795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00339-2
Cheng-Kai Hsu, D. Alex Quistberg, Brisa N. Sánchez, Josiah L. Kephart, Usama Bilal, Nelson Gouveia, Carolina Pérez Ferrer, Waleska T. Caiaffa, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Ignacio Yannone, Daniel A. Rodríguez
{"title":"Author Correction: Individual and city-level variations in heat-related road traffic deaths in Latin America","authors":"Cheng-Kai Hsu, D. Alex Quistberg, Brisa N. Sánchez, Josiah L. Kephart, Usama Bilal, Nelson Gouveia, Carolina Pérez Ferrer, Waleska T. Caiaffa, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Ignacio Yannone, Daniel A. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00339-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00339-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 11","pages":"1107-1107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00339-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145533793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-08DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00331-w
Wenxi Liao, Madison Appleby, Howard Rosenblat, Md. Abdul Halim, Cheryl A. Rogers, Jing M. Chen, Liat Margolis, Jennifer A. P. Drake, Sean C. Thomas
Green roofs have been increasingly implemented in cities globally to enhance urban ecosystem services. However, temporal trends in green roof vegetation health and the effects of design considerations at a large scale remain unclear. Here we used very high-resolution multispectral remote sensing imagery to quantify the temporal changes in vegetation health and associated roof characteristics across 1,380 individual green roof units in Toronto from 2011 to 2018. Results show an average increase in vegetation health and a decline in vegetation patchiness as green roofs age. We identify unit area, building height and vegetation type as the primary roof characteristics influencing vegetation health, with area positively and building height inversely affecting vegetation health. In terms of vegetation type, sedum mats are generally healthier than woody plants and grasses. Additionally, we identify critical thresholds in roof characteristics that support sustained vegetation health. These findings present a robust analytical framework for the long-term assessment and design optimization of green roofs in complex urban environments. Green roofs enhance urban ecosystem services, but the long-term vegetation health and design’s impact is underexplored. This study shows a temporal increase in vegetation health and identifies key factors and thresholds that support sustained vegetation health, offering guidance for effective green roof planning and design.
{"title":"Remote sensing for healthy vegetation on green roofs","authors":"Wenxi Liao, Madison Appleby, Howard Rosenblat, Md. Abdul Halim, Cheryl A. Rogers, Jing M. Chen, Liat Margolis, Jennifer A. P. Drake, Sean C. Thomas","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00331-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00331-w","url":null,"abstract":"Green roofs have been increasingly implemented in cities globally to enhance urban ecosystem services. However, temporal trends in green roof vegetation health and the effects of design considerations at a large scale remain unclear. Here we used very high-resolution multispectral remote sensing imagery to quantify the temporal changes in vegetation health and associated roof characteristics across 1,380 individual green roof units in Toronto from 2011 to 2018. Results show an average increase in vegetation health and a decline in vegetation patchiness as green roofs age. We identify unit area, building height and vegetation type as the primary roof characteristics influencing vegetation health, with area positively and building height inversely affecting vegetation health. In terms of vegetation type, sedum mats are generally healthier than woody plants and grasses. Additionally, we identify critical thresholds in roof characteristics that support sustained vegetation health. These findings present a robust analytical framework for the long-term assessment and design optimization of green roofs in complex urban environments. Green roofs enhance urban ecosystem services, but the long-term vegetation health and design’s impact is underexplored. This study shows a temporal increase in vegetation health and identifies key factors and thresholds that support sustained vegetation health, offering guidance for effective green roof planning and design.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 10","pages":"990-999"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145317839","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 : 2025-10-03DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00322-x
Kathryn F. Atherton, Chikae Tatsumi, Isabelle Frenette, David Heaton, Ian A. Smith, Lucy R. Hutyra, Pamela H. Templer, Jennifer M. Bhatnagar
The tree microbiome, the community of bacteria and fungi that live in and on trees, is a critical determinant of tree and ecosystem functioning, but human-caused disturbances can disrupt natural microbe–tree relationships. Here we show that urbanization shifts the structure and composition of the oak tree microbiome, reducing mutualistic root and leaf symbionts and increasing decomposers and pathogens, including those relevant to plant, animal and human health. These shifts correlate with urban stressors such as heat, drought and atmospheric aerosol deposition. Urban tree microbiomes also show altered biogeochemical cycling capabilities, with higher potential for nitrogen loss through greenhouse gas (N2O) production and reduced capacity for methane consumption relative to rural trees. Urbanization reduces overall tree microbiome diversity, particularly among non-pathogenic microbes, potentially diminishing the ecological and health benefits of environmental microbiomes in cities. Urbanization disrupts oak tree microbiomes by reducing beneficial fungi and increasing plant and human pathogens across leaves, roots and soils, with consequences for tree health, urban climate mitigation and potential human exposure to pathogens.
{"title":"Disruption of the oak tree microbiome with urbanization","authors":"Kathryn F. Atherton, Chikae Tatsumi, Isabelle Frenette, David Heaton, Ian A. Smith, Lucy R. Hutyra, Pamela H. Templer, Jennifer M. Bhatnagar","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00322-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00322-x","url":null,"abstract":"The tree microbiome, the community of bacteria and fungi that live in and on trees, is a critical determinant of tree and ecosystem functioning, but human-caused disturbances can disrupt natural microbe–tree relationships. Here we show that urbanization shifts the structure and composition of the oak tree microbiome, reducing mutualistic root and leaf symbionts and increasing decomposers and pathogens, including those relevant to plant, animal and human health. These shifts correlate with urban stressors such as heat, drought and atmospheric aerosol deposition. Urban tree microbiomes also show altered biogeochemical cycling capabilities, with higher potential for nitrogen loss through greenhouse gas (N2O) production and reduced capacity for methane consumption relative to rural trees. Urbanization reduces overall tree microbiome diversity, particularly among non-pathogenic microbes, potentially diminishing the ecological and health benefits of environmental microbiomes in cities. Urbanization disrupts oak tree microbiomes by reducing beneficial fungi and increasing plant and human pathogens across leaves, roots and soils, with consequences for tree health, urban climate mitigation and potential human exposure to pathogens.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 10","pages":"958-968"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145317843","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 : 2025-10-03DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00250-w
Mennatullah Hendawy, R. R. Riad, S. H. Elgredly
Media covers cities in myriad ways. This study examines the mediatization of an urban megadevelopment project, analyzing Al-Ahram Egyptian national press coverage of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital City project. We used thematic analysis and discourse analysis to investigate the technical media advertising of the project through a sample of 111 news headlines from 2015 (the project launch year) to 2019. The analysis revealed key shifts in planning news over time, reflecting the ways in which urban politics virtually, visually and discursively reinforce physical, exclusive urban growth. Media coverage tended to emphasize visual enticement, design spectacles and short-term financial returns while affordability and accessibility for the urban majority received comparatively less attention. More broadly, this study indicates how media not only communicates and visualizes urban futures but also has the potential to recreate them, as neoliberal urban policies advance through a mutually reinforcing relationship between media and the urban planning processes. Media informs how we see our cities and ourselves. Using news headlines, this study reveals how the press coverage of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital City project reinforced a vision of urban growth that echoed commercial aspirations.
{"title":"The mediatization of urban development and Egypt’s New Administrative Capital","authors":"Mennatullah Hendawy, R. R. Riad, S. H. Elgredly","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00250-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00250-w","url":null,"abstract":"Media covers cities in myriad ways. This study examines the mediatization of an urban megadevelopment project, analyzing Al-Ahram Egyptian national press coverage of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital City project. We used thematic analysis and discourse analysis to investigate the technical media advertising of the project through a sample of 111 news headlines from 2015 (the project launch year) to 2019. The analysis revealed key shifts in planning news over time, reflecting the ways in which urban politics virtually, visually and discursively reinforce physical, exclusive urban growth. Media coverage tended to emphasize visual enticement, design spectacles and short-term financial returns while affordability and accessibility for the urban majority received comparatively less attention. More broadly, this study indicates how media not only communicates and visualizes urban futures but also has the potential to recreate them, as neoliberal urban policies advance through a mutually reinforcing relationship between media and the urban planning processes. Media informs how we see our cities and ourselves. Using news headlines, this study reveals how the press coverage of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital City project reinforced a vision of urban growth that echoed commercial aspirations.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 11","pages":"1084-1091"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00250-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145533787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00323-w
Niké Susan Wesch, Sonja De Beer, Carike Claassen, Roelof Petrus Burger, Selna Cornelius, Elizelle Juaneé Cilliers, Stuart John Piketh
Conflicting interests and logic weaken policy effectiveness and induce clashes between the state and local communities. As the “protest capital of the world,” this is particularly evident in South Africa. The study uses a grounded theory approach, combining the analysis of government planning directives with qualitative data from seven South African low-income communities, to explore how quality of life is understood and prioritized. Although state and community actors broadly agree on what contributes to quality of life, the findings reveal important disconnects in how priorities are framed. These misalignments emerge across temporal, responsibility and spatial dimensions. Communities face daily employment, services and safety challenges, whereas state planning often focuses on long-term development. Improving the quality of life will require recognizing that spatial decisions are shaped by interpretation, power dynamics and the uneven use of data in decision-making. State planning goals in South Africa often misalign with the lived realities of communities despite shared quality-of-life visions. Analysis across low-income communities reveals temporal, spatial and responsibility disconnects between government directives and urgent local needs.
{"title":"Policy visions and lived realities diverge in pursuit of urban quality of life in Africa","authors":"Niké Susan Wesch, Sonja De Beer, Carike Claassen, Roelof Petrus Burger, Selna Cornelius, Elizelle Juaneé Cilliers, Stuart John Piketh","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00323-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00323-w","url":null,"abstract":"Conflicting interests and logic weaken policy effectiveness and induce clashes between the state and local communities. As the “protest capital of the world,” this is particularly evident in South Africa. The study uses a grounded theory approach, combining the analysis of government planning directives with qualitative data from seven South African low-income communities, to explore how quality of life is understood and prioritized. Although state and community actors broadly agree on what contributes to quality of life, the findings reveal important disconnects in how priorities are framed. These misalignments emerge across temporal, responsibility and spatial dimensions. Communities face daily employment, services and safety challenges, whereas state planning often focuses on long-term development. Improving the quality of life will require recognizing that spatial decisions are shaped by interpretation, power dynamics and the uneven use of data in decision-making. State planning goals in South Africa often misalign with the lived realities of communities despite shared quality-of-life visions. Analysis across low-income communities reveals temporal, spatial and responsibility disconnects between government directives and urgent local needs.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 11","pages":"1060-1070"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145533786","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 : 2025-09-29DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00328-5
Marie Josefine Hintz, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Felix Creutzig, Tim Repke, Lynn H. Kaack
Many cities are interested in leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) to help urban climate change mitigation (UCCM). Researchers and practitioners, however, are only beginning to understand how ML can contribute to achieving climate targets in cities. Here, we systematically map 2,300 peer-reviewed articles published between 1994 and 2024 that explore the use of ML in UCCM. We find that, despite fast growth in this research area, the use of generative artificial intelligence and large language models remains negligible, which contrasts to their increasing adoption in other urban domains. Among 40 identified application areas, ML research focuses predominantly on high-impact mitigation options denoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This trend may partly be driven by data availability and commercial interest, which risk perpetuating geographic inequities and diverting efforts toward less impactful mitigation options. We therefore offer recommendations to guide the impactful deployment of ML solutions in UCCM. At the nexus of machine learning and urban climate change mitigation, this systematic map identifies a fast growth of research, highlights under-researched impact areas and reveals geographic biases. It also offers recommendations to promote the impactful deployment of machine learning solutions in this urban domain.
{"title":"A systematic map of machine learning for urban climate change mitigation","authors":"Marie Josefine Hintz, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Felix Creutzig, Tim Repke, Lynn H. Kaack","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00328-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00328-5","url":null,"abstract":"Many cities are interested in leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) to help urban climate change mitigation (UCCM). Researchers and practitioners, however, are only beginning to understand how ML can contribute to achieving climate targets in cities. Here, we systematically map 2,300 peer-reviewed articles published between 1994 and 2024 that explore the use of ML in UCCM. We find that, despite fast growth in this research area, the use of generative artificial intelligence and large language models remains negligible, which contrasts to their increasing adoption in other urban domains. Among 40 identified application areas, ML research focuses predominantly on high-impact mitigation options denoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This trend may partly be driven by data availability and commercial interest, which risk perpetuating geographic inequities and diverting efforts toward less impactful mitigation options. We therefore offer recommendations to guide the impactful deployment of ML solutions in UCCM. At the nexus of machine learning and urban climate change mitigation, this systematic map identifies a fast growth of research, highlights under-researched impact areas and reveals geographic biases. It also offers recommendations to promote the impactful deployment of machine learning solutions in this urban domain.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 10","pages":"924-936"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145317849","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 : 2025-09-23DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00320-z
Sara L. Gandy, Jessica L. Hall, Grace Plahe, Kirsty Watkinson, David Johnson, Richard J. Birtles, Lucy Gilbert
Within- and between-city contexts and interactions shape our experiences of city life. However, a gap in understanding is how the wider landscape context of cities and the interactions with hinterlands influence urban ecology and health hazards. Using a meta-ecosystem framework, we fill this gap for the tick-borne Lyme disease ecological system by comparing the tick and Lyme disease hazards of urban and hinterland sites for 16 UK cities. We discover that the environmental hazards of ticks and Lyme disease of urban greenspaces are two- and threefold lower, respectively, than those of hinterland woodlands. Crucially, urban tick and Lyme disease hazards are shaped by tick abundance and the landcover (woodland and built-up) of hinterlands, but not of cities themselves. This highlights how rural–urban interactions form meta-ecosystems, and urban eco-epidemiology can depend on the characteristics of the surrounding rural landscape. Therefore, to better understand urban ecological processes and to mitigate disease risk in cities, it may be necessary to consider environmental factors in the hinterland such as landcover and disease hazard outside cities. Context counts, and not just for social and economic aspects of urban life. This study finds that, for 16 cities in the United Kingdom, the landcover of the rural surroundings is a better predictor of ticks and environmental Lyme disease hazard than the landcover within the cities themselves.
{"title":"The dependence of urban tick and Lyme disease hazards on the hinterlands","authors":"Sara L. Gandy, Jessica L. Hall, Grace Plahe, Kirsty Watkinson, David Johnson, Richard J. Birtles, Lucy Gilbert","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00320-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00320-z","url":null,"abstract":"Within- and between-city contexts and interactions shape our experiences of city life. However, a gap in understanding is how the wider landscape context of cities and the interactions with hinterlands influence urban ecology and health hazards. Using a meta-ecosystem framework, we fill this gap for the tick-borne Lyme disease ecological system by comparing the tick and Lyme disease hazards of urban and hinterland sites for 16 UK cities. We discover that the environmental hazards of ticks and Lyme disease of urban greenspaces are two- and threefold lower, respectively, than those of hinterland woodlands. Crucially, urban tick and Lyme disease hazards are shaped by tick abundance and the landcover (woodland and built-up) of hinterlands, but not of cities themselves. This highlights how rural–urban interactions form meta-ecosystems, and urban eco-epidemiology can depend on the characteristics of the surrounding rural landscape. Therefore, to better understand urban ecological processes and to mitigate disease risk in cities, it may be necessary to consider environmental factors in the hinterland such as landcover and disease hazard outside cities. Context counts, and not just for social and economic aspects of urban life. This study finds that, for 16 cities in the United Kingdom, the landcover of the rural surroundings is a better predictor of ticks and environmental Lyme disease hazard than the landcover within the cities themselves.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 10","pages":"948-957"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00320-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145317848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00247-5
Mojtaba Parsaee
Urban resilience is rooted in our ability to harmonize with nature and cultivate deeper relationships with local climates. Mojtaba Parsaee reflects on how the historic neighborhoods of four cities have nurtured his poetic bond with harsh climates, which inspires his vision of resilience.
{"title":"Harmonizing with nature in cities","authors":"Mojtaba Parsaee","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00247-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00247-5","url":null,"abstract":"Urban resilience is rooted in our ability to harmonize with nature and cultivate deeper relationships with local climates. Mojtaba Parsaee reflects on how the historic neighborhoods of four cities have nurtured his poetic bond with harsh climates, which inspires his vision of resilience.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 9","pages":"908-908"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123466","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 : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00329-4
Cities frequently find themselves on the frontlines of the climate crisis, facing acute environmental risks while also holding the potential to lead transformative changes. In this joint Focus issue between Nature Climate Change and Nature Cities, we explore how cities are evolving into strategic actors by harnessing public education, engineering innovation and governance frameworks to drive climate solutions.
{"title":"Cities rising to climate challenges","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00329-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00329-4","url":null,"abstract":"Cities frequently find themselves on the frontlines of the climate crisis, facing acute environmental risks while also holding the potential to lead transformative changes. In this joint Focus issue between Nature Climate Change and Nature Cities, we explore how cities are evolving into strategic actors by harnessing public education, engineering innovation and governance frameworks to drive climate solutions.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 9","pages":"771-772"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00329-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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