The City of Today is a Dying Thing by Des Fitzgerald

The City of Today is a Dying Thing by Des Fitzgerald

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'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . 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.

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The City of Today is a Dying Thing by Des Fitzgerald

'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . 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.
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.
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ISBN 13 9780571362219
ISBN 10 0571362214
Title The City of Today is a Dying Thing
Author Des Fitzgerald
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2024-01-18
Number of pages 288
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