A year and a half ago a project not more than ¼ mile from my home in Seven Sisters, London, caught my attention. It was the repurposing of 10 privately owned water reservoirs into urban #wetlands, and so intrigued me that it became the topic of my Master’s dissertation. Having spent much of my life living in rural areas, with access to almost unlimited outdoor space, I tend to notice places that provide respite from the city’s manic pace. London is well known for being one of the greenest #cities in the world. In the year and a half that I’ve lived here, the continual discovery of such spaces has given me hope that cities can be more integrated into the natural world.