Putting aside the bigger-picture enclosure and privatization of the commons on the scale of parks, pastures, forests, urban downtowns, and roadways, even the smaller-scale commons of a community area in a seemingly public place is hard to find anywhere.
"This isn't going to be a three- or five-year project, this is more like a 10- to 20-year project," said Eric J. Louttit, a vice president of Forest City who oversees downtown development in Las Vegas.
Miles of mountain biking wind through the Wasatch-Cache National Forest within minutes of downtown, and the Ogden and Weber Rivers provide ample opportunity for in-town kayaking and canoeing.
Looming mountains, the shimmering Pacific Ocean and dozens of tiny tree-topped islands constantly wink at you between downtown's forest of shiny glass towers.
So in 2012, McKain and other scientists set up monitoring stations at four locations in the metropolitan region: two in the city center including one on a skyscraper one on the coast, and one in a forest 50 km from downtown, just outside the study region.
Patients await surgery in the "forest" of University Hospital in downtown Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince12 earthquake.
"We need to figure out prevention strategies to ensure we can respond to the crisis before it happens so that when we are experiencing forest fires and economic downtowns, people don't turn to violence to deal with stress," said Wells.
It was produced by Lasse Marhaug, the Norwegian noise musician, who recorded Ms. Lee last year in a number of different locations in and around Oslo — indoors, outdoors, downtown, in a forest — all on a portable cassette recorder from, apparently, 1976.
Fort McMurray, which got its start as a fur trading post in the 1800s, was never as pretty as the forest that surround it; the downtown, which has escaped the wildfire so far, is an architectural time capsule of the 1970s, filled with low-rise buildings thrown up in a hurry.
From a cockpit 2500 feet up the Bay Area looks almost too gorgeous to be real, like a special-effect matte painting of sea, rippling hills, great pale swathes of buildings, cargo ships arrayed in their unloading queue, the forest of skyscrapers that is downtown San Francisco, the pale arc of the Bay Bridge, the clenched fist of Alcatraz, the famed distant silhouette of the Golden Gate.
