The City of Today is a Dying Thing

aw_product_id: 
36716142942
merchant_image_url: 
merchant_category: 
Books
search_price: 
18.99
book_author_name: 
Des Fitzgerald
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Faber & Faber
published_date: 
18/01/2024
isbn: 
9780571362219
Merchant Product Cat path: 
Books > Art, Fashion & Photography > Architecture > Architectural structure & design > Environmentally-friendly architecture & design
specifications: 
Des Fitzgerald|Hardback|Faber & Faber|18/01/2024
Merchant Product Id: 
9780571362219
Book Description: 
'Lively, irreverent and insightful.' Lauren Elkin'Like Jon Ronson on town planners ... Endlessly funny and seriously smart.' John GrindrodCities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks. So goes the argument. But is it true? What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there?Here, Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life, from shimmering edifices in the Arizona desert to forest-bathing in deepest Wales, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings. Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of today's green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are - in all their raucous, constructed and artificial glory.

Graphic Design by Ishmael Annobil /  Web Development by Ruzanna Hovasapyan