Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: The Natural City: Cultivating the Terrain I. Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections In Search of the Natural City – Ingrid Leman StefanovicCan Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding an Apparently Oxymoronic Aspiration – W.S.K. CameronThe “Gruing” of Cities – Frank Cunningham“My Streets Are My Ideas of Imagination”: Literature and the Theme of the Natural City – Peter TimmermanII. From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective – Stephen Bede ScharperSailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East – Bruce V. FoltzDao in the City – Vincent ShenBiocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist Approach – Kenneth MalyIII. Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications Gated Ecologies and Possible Urban Worlds: From the Global City to the Natural City – Hilary CunninghamOther Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes – Richard OddieEcofeminist “Cityzenry” – Trish GlazebrookSustainable Urbanization – John B. Cobb, Jr.“Troubled Nature: Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City (Gurgaon), India” – Shubhra GururaniIV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors – Bill Woodworth Raweno:kwasSeeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds – David SeamonThe City: A Legacy of Organism-environment Interaction at Every Scale – Robert MugerauerNatural Cities, Unnatural Energy – Bryan W. Karney and Gaurav KumarChildren and Nature in the City – Sarah J. King and Ingrid Leman StefanovicConclusion