In recent decades, the role of the natural environment in mitigating the effects of climate change has been globally acknowledged. Solutions include urban green infrastructure that mitigates flood, and air pollution and solves food security through urban gardens and orchards. Despite all these benefits, these strategies preserve a totalitarian and utilitarian vision of the vegetal world that dissolves the agency of non-human organisms and the environmental administrators in the communities. Addressing the pathological man-nature relationship could help envision new paradigms of equitable interactions in urban green projects. This study analyses the concept of "nature-placemaking" and its potential to induce balanced relationships with nature through new formulations of agency.

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The levels of interventions and forms of autonomous participation are unravelled and analysed to formulate an ecology framework that acknowledges all spatial actors' social and political agency.