How can we intervene in cities so that nature plays a leading role in urban well-being? Preserving forests and reforesting cities requires radically incorporating carbon flow and biodiversity into cities as a strategy for creating resilient microclimates. This session proposes reflections on how to configure multifunctional and multi-scale urban forests, constituting green infrastructure networks capable of intensifying essential ecosystem services \u2013 such as primary production, nutrient cycling and soil formation. The absence of these services in cities results in heat islands, floods and disasters, the result of the gap between urban planning and ecology. Bringing these two fields together is essential, considering perspectives on planning and managing urban vegetation and soil throughout the open space system. The goal is to inspire new paradigms of urban afforestation that promote well-being and strengthen climate resilience by integrating the forest above and the forest below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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