Kate Orff, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainab

With climate change in the news, an urban core that has reached boiling point, and many children growing up without role models and with limited dreams, where i

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Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The global discourse around urban eco

Over half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and