The City of Today is a Dying Thing - Des Fitzgerald

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

Here, sociologist Des Fitzgerald takes us on an 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 offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are - in all their raucous, constructed and artificial glory.