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The discovery of a wider support network within cities

In a biophilic year archive

Nature in the city is easy to picture as ornament, a pleasant green backdrop. It works instead as infrastructure, plants cooling the air, pollinators sustaining the food chain, life quietly holding a city up.

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This essay is part of A Biophilic Year Archive, available with the book A Biophilic Year: 365 thoughts on the essence and practice of biophilic design.