Wild Cities

Fitch's structure, one city, one best-practice idea per chapter, from Nairobi's urban wildlife corridors to Helsinki's homelessness policy to Singapore's vertical greening, makes the book function almost as a manual of transferable urban fixes rather than a single argument pressed too hard. That format is also its limitation: reviewers have found the reporting genuinely hopeful and well-traveled, but some have flagged Fitch's habit of quoting interview subjects at length, which occasionally slows chapters that would land harder if trimmed. Still, the optimism here is earned by specificity rather than asserted by tone, Fitch visited these places and talked to the people implementing the ideas, which is what separates it from more abstract urbanism writing.