The City of Today is a Dying Thing

by Des Fitzgerald

Buy used book

Mint Not in stock 197 SEK
Fair Not in stock 167 SEK
Poor Not in stock 139 SEK

Not in stock. Monitor this book.

Buy new book

New book 233 SEK

Fakta

Publisher	Faber And Faber
Language	English
Book type	Hardcover
Utgiven	2024-01-18
Pages	304
ISBN	9780571362219
Kategori(er)	Environment & Sustainability

Add to cart

Description

'Lively, irreverent and insightful.' Lauren Elkin
'Like Jon Ronson on town planners ... Endlessly funny and seriously smart.' John Grindrod

Cities 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.

So far, we have reused

books.

Sweden's friendliest and environmental friendliest bookshop with the lowest priced textbooks.

This is our ambition, and we do what it takes to get there. We are here to help students to save and earn money on their textbooks while we at the same time save the environment. We were started in 2005 by two students and have since strived to constantly make it easier to buy and sell used textbooks for as many as possible.

Opening Hours