Phytopolis. City of Life

On the streets — green groves, and in the squares — shady gardens: this beautiful and utopian landscape is not a decoration for a science fiction film, but a call to action.

This is the conviction of the renowned Italian scientist Stefano Mancuso, a professor at the University of Florence and a science popularizer, author of bestsellers translated into more than 30 languages. 

His book «Phytopolis. City of Life», published for the first time in Russian, is about the past and future of modern cities. The more cities develop, the closer global warming becomes, which in the foreseeable future can make ordinary urban life not only unbearable but impossible. But there is good news: stopping global warming and saving cities can be achieved with... trees! 

Drawing on extensive historical material and the latest discoveries in biology, the author proposes the idea of a phytopolis — a plant-city that lives in unity with nature.