The face-to-face bet between the reader and this book is guaranteed to turn into the first significant expansion of his competences. And with a high probability, the inquisitive bookworm will be interested in the lively essay by Mykhailo Pozhyvanov with a wide disclosure of the thematic amplitude, covering the phenomenon of the city and urban culture.
The rich plot journey begins from the period of the formation of the polis system, forces the Middle Ages and the era of Magdeburg law and brings the main line of exposition to the modern era of uncompromising urbanization. The logic and periodicity of the formation of the city as the main spring of the civilizational process are described not by an accidental visionary writer, but by a capable manager who assessed the problems of urban space through the prism of his own experiences.
The author of the book held the position of mayor of the metallurgical giant on the shores of the Azov Sea, the city of Mariupol, for a long time, and most clearly manifested himself in the administrative mechanics of the capital, being the deputy mayor of Kyiv.
The book is not overloaded with historical facts and with walking ease leads the reader from the initial phases of the formation of the polis space, and the Mariupol and Kyiv periods of Mykhailo Pozhyvanov are described with a special color and political collisions that the author had to go through.
The text is successfully supplemented with the author's artistic works, which gives this book atmosphericity and completeness of coverage of the phenomenon of the city.