The green cities movement is based on the notion that green spaces are healthier for our bodies and our minds. But Des Fitzgerald says the movement hides a dark past - where these ideas were connected to eugenics, and where the inspiration for green cities was tied to making a more docile, compliant worker to feed the needs of industrial capital. 

• GUEST: Des Fitzgerald, Professor of Medical Humanities at the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork; author of ‘The City of Today Is a Dying Thing’ published by Faber. 
• PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer