Published to coincide with the one-hundredth anniversary of Murray Bookchin's birth, this launches a series of reprints of his work. We want to bring his very relevant ideas about society and the environment to a new and wider audience, including a generation of younger readers who missed his heyday. Murray's The Ecology of Freedom has always been a strong seller for us, and this title explores similar territory, with a more historical and less philosophical approach and a focus on the relationship of cities to the natural world. There has been a resurgence in interest in Murray's work. His theories have been adopted by the Kurdish people of Rojava as a blueprint for the society they are building. Young people in North America are exploring his work, but most of it has been out of print or is only spottily available. Murray's work was prescient and there is a whole generation of people primed for precisely what he has to offer and for whom most of his writing is yet to be discovered.