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A face-to-face encounter between the reader and this book is guaranteed to result in a significant expansion of their competences. And a curious book lover is likely to be interested in Mikhail Pozhyvanov's lively essay with its wide range of thematic amplitude, covering the phenomenon of the city and urban culture.

The rich narrative journey begins with the period of formation of the polis system, forcing the Middle Ages and the Magdeburg Law and bringing the main line of the story to the modern era of uncompromising urbanisation. The logic and periodicity of the formation of the city as the main spring of the civilisation process is described not by an accidental writer and visionary, but by a capable manager who assessed the problems of urban space through the prism of his own experience.
The author of the book served for a long time as the mayor of the metallurgical giant on the banks of the Azov, the city of Mariupol, and showed himself to be the most expressive in the administrative mechanics of the capital as 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, and the Mariupol and Kyiv periods of Mikhail Pozhyvanov are described with a special colour and political conflicts that the author had to go through.
The text is successfully supplemented by the author's artistic works, which makes this book atmospheric and complete in its coverage of the city phenomenon.