Thinking with Urban Natures

For three years, the Urban Environments Initiative brought together researchers from across disciplines to share, question, and reflect on urban environmental issues. The latest issue of Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History, published by the White Horse Press, showcases some of knots and tangles of these reflections and the energy that only interdisciplinary thinking can produce.

This special issue, titled “Irritations and Unforeseen Consequences of the Urban: Debating Natures, Politics and Timescapes,” was edited by Eveline Dürr, Regine Keller, and Daniel Dumas.

Together with Raúl Acosta, Matthew Gandy, Maan Barua, Joseph Adeniran Adedeji, and Kara Schlichting, I ran toward the question of whether or not there is an urban nature and, in response, asked: What’s blue got to do with it? It has been a privilege to think and write in the company of such inspiring minds. Browse the collection of articles here.