Reexamining the relationship between the city and the brain, Rose and Fitzgerald explore the ways cities shape the mental health and illness of those who inhabit them.ĭrawing on the social and life sciences, The Urban Brain takes an ecosocial approach to the vital city, in which humans live and thrive but too often get sick and suffer. In The Urban Brain, Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald seek to revive the collaboration between sociology and psychiatry about these critical questions. But the split between the social and life sciences has hindered understanding of how urban experience is written into the bodies and brains of urbanites. Psychiatrists try to explain the high rates of mental disorders among urban dwellers, especially migrants. How does the urban experience shape the mental lives of those living in and moving to cities today? Sociologists study cities as centers of personal progress and social innovation, but also exclusion, racism, and inequality. Most of the world’s people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south.
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