How does urbanization—particularly the transformation of environments to meet human needs for comfort and leisure—channel and redistribute access to natural elements like vegetation, water, and air? And how do design practices then reconstruct or substitute these “missing” aspects of nature in the built environment? This thematic cluster of objects examines how design provides comfort in ways that
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