The Natural History of Cities

Rome, Beijing, Semnan, Chicago, and others

Collaboration Wu Hong, Nastaran Tebyanian

Trees urban trees everywhere

Let us consider only this question: how does the locus urbis, once it has been determined, influence the individual and the collective? This question interests me here in the ecological sense of Sorre: that is, how does the environment influence the individual and the collective? For Sorre, this question was far more interesting than the opposite one of how man influences his environment. Aldo Rossi, Idea of the City

The Natural History of Cities is an ongoing investigation of global cities in order to discover and demonstrate the persistence of natural factors in their settlement and development - as well as build a foundation for investigation on the impact of climate change and climate justice, urbanization, and other pressing contemporary environmental issues. This research has been presented in Delft, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Sacramento, Chicago, and Washington, DC and is the subject of several published articles.