The City of Today is a Dying Thing - In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow

''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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Des Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Des
• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.01.2024
• EAN: 9780571362219
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36221-9
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 143 mm x 224 mm x 26 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Architektur; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Conservation of the environment, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design, mark o'connell notes from an apocalypse to be a machine a thread of violence sam knight the premonitions bureau; iain sinclair london orbital london overground urban decay urban planning city cities futurism architecture writing architectural; peter