More Bugs, More Plants: A Crash Course on Biophilic Cities
By Timothy Beatley / On October 2nd, 2013
Cross-posted at TheCityFix
We need nature even more these days. As more people live in cities, nature offers a potent remedy to many of the environmental, economic, and emotional challenges presented by urban living. To address this, a new approach to urbanism has arisen – a “biophilic” urbanism – based on the assumption that contact with nature and the natural world is absolutely essential to modern urban life.