When urban nature is invoked, it often appears as a green add-on: a remedy for urban deficits, a technical solution in the context of climate adaptation, or an aesthetic upgrade. Such a view narrows the perspective. It reduces nature to a function and obscures the fact that cities are already ecological formations in which soil, water, plants, infrastructures, and political decisions are inseparably intertwined. Urban nature is not a retrospective corrective to the city, but an expression of its material, social, and historical conditions.

Stadtnatur | Urban Nature therefore proposes a shift in perspective: away...