Des Fitzgerald

The City of Today is a Dying Thing
In conversation with David Lister

Starts at: Saturday 19 October 12:15 PM
Finishes at: Saturday 19 October 1:15 PM

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Cities are polluted, noisy, fundamentally unnatural – and bad for us. Humans need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks.

Or do they?

Should we really try to create a new kind of city by building a better life from the ground up?  What would it look like? And would anyone want to live there?

Des Fitzgerald, a New Generation Thinker, challenges these conventional assumptions, taking 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 exposes the controversial roots of the green city movement and offers an argument for celebrating today’s cities – in all their raucous, constructed and artificial glory.

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