In this blogpost on The Nature Of Cities, researchers from the NATURVATION project critcally discuss nature-based solutions exploring common trends and conundrums. They argue that nature-based solutions can and often do provide an impressively large set of socio-ecological benefits. But the expectations that they can fast-fix, or even mask, the deeper socio-political urban troubles behind desires for eternal and “green” economic growth are largely unfounded and bound to disappoint.