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The Bogota Green Divide
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Shanghai: Aiming High
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CitiNature is a project that brings a multidisciplinary approach to understanding urban quality of life issues from a green perspective. The project investigates and documents how urban residents, particularly those at lower incomes, suffer from inferior access to a range of green benefits. This includes proximity to parks and access to bicycle infrastructure.
Recognizing the complex interplay of politics, economics, science and nature, CitiNature works with local experts, government agencies, business people, and activists to devise and share broad-based approaches to improving access to green benefits, thereby creating a better quality of life in cities around the world.
Recognizing the complex interplay of politics, economics, science and nature, CitiNature works with local experts, government agencies, business people, and activists to devise and share broad-based approaches to improving access to green benefits, thereby creating a better quality of life in cities around the world.
latest from the CitiNature blog
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CitiNature research
The Bogota Green Divide: In 2011-2012 CitiNature conducted a 9-month study of the street-tree canopy in Bogotá, Colombia. Our findings were starkly revealing and showed a stunning contrast between wealthy neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods in terms of tree coverage. We generated the first set of published data on street-tree inequality in any developing-world city, conclusively demonstrating the green divide in Bogotá and providing a basic model for stree-tree equity studies in other cities around the world. Click below for a summary report.
New Research Project. March 2017: CitiNature is launching a new project on comparative urban livability issues in a number of cities around the world, It will be a synthesis of the latest academic thinking on the topic, reviews of political and government policy developments, and on the ground research.
Inequality: A Colombian Mirror. This short report takes a look at inequality in Colombia and the United States, finding parallels and a disturbing trend in the United States.
in the news
The Hidden World Under Our Feet
An excellent article in the New York Times on soil biodiversity.
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