One City One Book: Cities as Ancestors

Explore how our relationships with cities, parks and the more-than-human world can shape our future. Inspired by Susanna Kwan's Awake in the Floating City, the 2026 One City One Book selection, this conversation brings together local community leaders working on place-based environmental justice to consider what it means to be an ancestor and how the places we inhabit become part of our collective legacy.

Drawing on five years of the Parks as Ancestors series, inspired by the book, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?, the discussion expands the conversation beyond protected parklands to consider urban spaces as living legacies.

This interactive program invites participants to consider what we inherit from the places and people who came before us-and what we will leave behind for those who come after. Attendees are welcome to bring a photograph or a sentimental object honoring someone they have lost, if they wish to incorporate it into the program.

Free