City of Today is a Dying Thing In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow
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Biographical note
Des Fitzgerald is professor of medical humanities and social sciences at University College Cork. He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for sociology in 2017, and named a 'New Generation Thinker' by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He lives in Cork.'A social scientist offers a witty and sceptical view of our obsession with greenery in urban spaces . . . Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . . . We could all use a little more of Fitzgerald's scepticism', <b>Edwin Heath-cote, Financial Times</b><br /><br /><br />'An amusing, sceptical and refreshing journey through the past and fu-ture of urban life. Fitzgerald has an eye for the incongruous, and a talent for teasing out grander themes from unlikely or lacklustre settings . . . [his] en-gagements with his surroundings are compelling . . . [and] he has an entertaining cattiness throughout . . . [The City of Today is a Dying Thing is] a compassionate and lively venture, a robust defence of the messiness of cities, and a noble corrective against those who insist on a managerial view of nature, urban spaces and human beings', <b>Daily Telegraph</b>