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Cape Town and the Watershed of Resilience: A Metropolitan Study of Post-Drought Transformation

GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 15 The atmospheric tension in Cape Town during the austral summer of 2017–2018 was characterized by a distinct psychological phenomena...

Why Mexico City is Sinking: The Environmental History of a Modern Water Crisis

Mexico City faces sinking and water crises due to drained lakes and urban growth. Explore the environmental challenges and solutions shaping its future

The Common Table in a Burning World: Why the United Nations Must Be Revived, Not Abandoned

The chamber still looks improbably calm. Green marble. Translation headsets. Country names set out in alphabetical order, as though the world’s grief can be...

Los Angeles: Reinventing the Concrete River

Explore Los Angeles' ambitious efforts to transform its concrete flood-control river back into a living ecological corridor amidst urban and climate challenges.

Vienna – Green Social Housing as Climate Policy

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 3 For a century, Vienna has built homes that shelter half its population from the market. Now the same political...

Singapore: Engineered Nature in a Tropical City-State

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 4 Singapore has spent sixty years turning a cleared island into a green city, and the results are, in many...

Paris, or the Hard Work of a Breathing City

Green Cities Series | Article 02 How the French capital turned against the car, rewrote its streets, and discovered that a green city is not...

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The City Must Breathe An introduction to the Green Cities series: what we mean, how we will judge, and why the urban future is now...

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