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  • The City of Today Is a Dying Thing

  • In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow
  • By: Des Fitzgerald
  • Narrated by: Des Fitzgerald
  • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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By: Des Fitzgerald
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Summary

Cities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete; trees, not tower blocks.

So goes the argument, anyway. 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 Japan, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings.

Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often problematic 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.
©2024 Des Fitzgerald (P)2024 Faber & Faber
Architecture Home Design & Renovation Sustainable & Green Living Politics & Government Urban Environment Nature & Ecology
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Stimulating but too frustrating for someone like myself who enjoys a more solution orientated approach to reimagining our urban lives, rather than a focus on our problems and then the problems with potential solutions, too.

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