Urban Landscapes Archives

Jun 04 2025

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Winter Coat

By Akshara Sangiorgio

A very small intruder leaves a very big impression in this poetic meditation on abundance and scarcity.

Mar 24 2025

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The Napoli Way: An Interview with Dario Ciccarelli, Urban Biocultural Diversity Activist

By Chang Liu

A city of resilient "tribes" offers a lesson on how to preserve urban biocultural diversity. Stephen Houston (L) soaking in the atmosphere of busy Via San Gregorio (Street), at the…

Apr 09 2024

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Black to the Land

By Akshara Sangiorgio

A Black urban girl in Upstate New York reclaims ancestral gardening.

Jul 20 2022

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Reverence for Nature: A Biocultural Journey in Botanical Gardens

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Botanical gardens offer a unique opportunity to reconnect with nature in an urban setting. Four students share their experiences.

Jul 14 2018

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Biocultural Features of Urban Gardens and Yards Enhance Place-making and Belonging in South African Townships

By Robert Wiltzen

by Duncan Haynes, Michelle Cocks, and Charlie Shackleton . RDP housing has been critiqued as unimaginative and as limiting opportunities for place-making. Photo: Tony Dold, 2016 . South African cities…

Jan 01 2018

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Rooted in Place: Exercises in Belonging, Ecological Awareness, and Love

By Robert Wiltzen

by Radhika Borde Seeking roots in a new city. Photo: Radhika Borde, 2017 What does it mean to have roots? In most cases the metaphor implies a genetic legacy, a…

Sep 30 2017

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We Want to Map

By Akshara Sangiorgio

by Barbara Dovarch Valenzuela City, Greater Manila. People building a realistic map of their settlement. Photo: Barbara Dovarch, 2013 . People mapping is a creative and serious game Local knowledge…

Sep 29 2017

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People Mapping: Visualizing Sense of Place for Decision Making

By Akshara Sangiorgio

by Barbara Dovarch Upolu, Samoa. Students of Lauli’i Primary School tracing the contour lines to manufacture their Participatory 3D (P3D) model of Lauli’i land area. Photo: Paulo Amerika, 2012 …

Aug 25 2016

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Freeway Coyote

By Akshara Sangiorgio

by Lee Beavington I watch coyote cross the freeway trickster weaves amid wheeled gods her belly droops with gaunt lactation survivor of west coast wild abides two-legged rules of concrete …