In its search for 100 resilient cities, the Rockefeller Foundation has defined resilience as
“the capacity of individuals, communities, and systems to survive, adapt, and grow in the
face of stress and shocks, and even transform when conditions require it”.1 Singapore is
among the 35 cities recently selected to join the 32 selected last year for its 100 Resilient
Cities network. This issue of CITYGREEN continues to champion sustainability as well as its
larger goal of resilience.

In this issue of CITY GREEN, we examine how cities around the world, including Singapore, have taken steps towards integrating nature into urban spaces, and how these cities improve residents’ lives with the support of nature. Urban planner and environmentalist F. Kaid Benfield advocates for cities’ smart growth through the creation of designs that allow nature to support urbanity. The addition of green infrastructure, as well as trees and parks within the concrete spaces can provide solutions to improve residents’ way of life. Likewise, architects like Jeanne Gang demonstrate that cities such as Chicago can be transformed and revitalised simply by maximising its residents’ opportunities to enjoy nature. At a personal level, Singaporeans have realised the benefits of getting closer to nature. A report by Sarah Ichioka sheds light on the nascent urban farming community in Singapore, and the nation’s steps toward improving its food security. The many green spaces in Singapore also afford residents opportunities to commune with nature easily. Residents in a number of housing precincts, including The Interlace and Yishun Greenwalk, can admire and interact with nature from their doorsteps.

This issue of CITYGREEN presents research articles on Singapore's park connectors, swamps, and Pulau Ubin. International reports include the microbial input from nature being a key component of the beneficial effect of green space, and specific design characteristics of urban parks that can induce in visitors the pattern of brain activity that is associated with contemplative or meditative states.

Around the world, health, park, and planning experts and leaders have recognised how nature and parks are an underutilised healthcare and community resource. A number of these successful governmental and non-governmental programmes are featured in the latest issue of CITYGREEN. 

Themed Nature & Health in Cities. CITYGREEN issue 9 features Parks Victoria’s Healthy Parks Healthy People movement and the US-based National Park Prescriptions Initiative in Reports. Local stories include “Seeking Nature’s Mysterious Ways” that incorporates insights on the implementation of Nature Ways and an interview  with Group CEO of Alexandra Health System Liak Teng Lit who reveals his ambitions to take his vision of hospital gardens as community spaces a step further

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CITYGREEN presents information on greening and ecology of the urban environment.  The articles in each issue are written by well-known experts and professionals from disciplines such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and urban ecology. As a magazine, it presents useful information found in scientific resources in a highly readable and delightfully illustrated format. CITYGREEN has won the APEX Awards for Publication Excellence for five consecutive years - 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012.

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