The international Commission for Living Infrastructure (LINC) embraces the shift from grey to nature-based cities at the COP16. The frenzy of human-centered urbanization over the last two centuries drastically transformed life-supporting ecosystems into artificial environments failing to maintain the health of humans and non-humans. At the tipping point of the current environmental crisis, there is an urgent need to design and build urban landscapes that integrate plants, birds, pollinators, microorganisms, and other non-human forms of life that are key to functional and resilient communities. This implies fostering our awareness of cities as a continuum of nature in man-made environments through new methods, approaches, projects and metrics that reflect how biodiversity contributes to achieving regenerative and inclusive urban landscapes which manifest the “human right to nature” motto, but also how buildings, public space and infrastructure meet the “rights of nature” and are recognized as a sound conservation strategy.