בין כלורופיל לבטון: הקשר בין שירת הטבע העירוני לבין תכנון ערים: [מתוך המדור: בשדה התכנון]

This article focuses on a fairly new literary sub-genre — urban nature poetry. The assumption we make here is that urban nature poetry is poetry that maintains a dialogue between the fruit of human creation and the fruit of Nature itself, and attempts to decipher Humanity’s place between the two. As such, we present the readings of six poems by contemporary Israeli poets, that represent the different aspects of the human/environment relationship and propose a new model that enables us to place urban nature poems along aspectrum, somewhere between an ‘urban poem’ with some natural elements and a poem dealing especially with an ‘Urban-Nature’ theme. Reading the poems and their characterization can serve as inspiration and as a conceptual and emotional basis for intelligent urban planning, and constitute a new participatory tool for urban planning based on the personal experience of the citizen.