Grow Your Vision
Discover and explore The City of Chicago's 1837 adopted motto "Urbs in Horto" (Latin for City in a Garden) growth through snapshot-collage storytelling; a Digital-Desktop Internet Art Style with pictures encompassing a portal-feeling transporting viewers to the natural world location. Covering the community led initiatives, organizations, businesses, current events, and the amazing people behind the work - further learning about the implication's communities face, the barriers that are specific to their group, and how the community is changing their natural history through an inter-web of community support. Explore open-resouce projects on our website - from sections of Environmental Justice history, CTA nature guides, to community resource & organizing maps. I invite you to explore our Instagram page @wearethecityinagarden and open-resource projects in shaping your sense of belonging with the environmental movement in Chicago!
Get to Know The Identity
Known by two names,
Somos Los Urbs in Horto / We Are The City In A Garden
to keep originality in "Urbs in Horto" designation in 1837 & translated meaning behind the saying.
Website Name: SomosLosUrbsinHorto
Instagram Handle: @wearethecityinagarden
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Click the sticker to read more on our visual identity from standard colors/fonts to our methods of public communication such as signage from flyers to sticks and learn how you can do it yourself for free!
Click the star to learn about our meaning behind the usage of the infamous Chicago 6-pointed flag stars represented on stickers and number of petals on logo. Take a glance at the culture of our page and what we represent at the core.