City Quitters - Creative Pioneers Pursuing Post-Urban Life

City Quitters - Creative Pioneers Pursuing Post-Urban Life
 
What does it mean to leave city life behind? Can the reality of living in the countryside fulfil our desire for a better, simpler, more creative life? This book is an attempt to shed light on what rural life can be like today, with all its joys and challenges, providing a fresh look at the people and scenes thriving outside urban spaces. 
 
From experimental co-habitation in a renaissance castle to oversized artworks on a farm, City Quitters offers a global perspective on creative post-urban life: 22 stories from 12 countries and five continents, all based in places with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. 
 
Features
• 22 interviews with creative professionals and entrepreneurs who left a big city and are now living and working in a rural or provincial environment 
• Offers fascinating insights into the personal and professional lives of creative individ#uals across the globe 
• Shows a fresh approach to rural living beyond rustic pastimes and nostalgia 
 
Publication Details
 
Released 2018 
Frame Publishers 
English 
Written by Karen Rosenkranz 
200 x 265 mm 
256 pages / softcover / full colour 
ISBN 9789492311313