Nearby Nature in the City translates decades of environmental-psychology research into a spatial grammar of urban livability. Its strength lies in refusing the opposition between density and nature: small vegetal fragments, pocket spaces, planted edges, views, paths and canopies are treated as legitimate components of urban life rather than inferior substitutes for wilderness. The publication moves from evidence to design guidance without pretending that design can be reduced to a universal formula. Safety, visibility, maintenance, enclosure, access and perceptual richness are framed as interacting spatial variables. The iconic idea is that ordinary urban nature must be intentionally preserved and produced because its psychological value depends on proximity and recurrence. Methodologically, the work operates as a translation device between research findings and environmental decision-making. Its broader contribution is to make environmental benefit architectural: restoration is no longer only an outcome measured after exposure, but a property that can be supported or obstructed through the distribution, morphology and governance of everyday spatial conditions.