The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great

A sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything—and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is

Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if something is unhealthy or bad about urban life today, then nature holds the cure. However, argues sociologist Des Fitzgerald, green spaces are not the panacea that people think.

In The Living City, Fitzgerald tours the international green city movement that has flourished across the world and disc...