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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2022
      June 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108339353
      9781108424523
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108339353
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.3kg, 814 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Global History
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    This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new consequences and opening prospects for new hope. In Earthopolis we peek into our cities' homes, neighborhoods, streets, shops, eating houses, squares, marketplaces, religious sites, schools, universities, offices, monuments, docklands, and airports to discover connections between small spaces and the largest things we have built. The book exposes the Urban Planet's deep inequalities of power, wealth, access to knowledge, class, race, gender, sexuality, religion and nation. It asks us to draw on the most just and democratic moments of Earthopolis's past to rescue its future.

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    ‘Majestic in scale, full of fascinating detail about stones, bricks and systems of segregation, this book is charged with an urgency to create a new epic for our times. It is nothing less than a new human history. Carl Nightingale will change how you think about where we come from, the places we live in, and the resources we consume from this planet and its sun.'

    Jeremy Adelman - author of Worldly Philosopher: the Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

    ‘There's an exhilaration that comes with reading history written on this scale – much of our life that seems elusive or unconnected begins to make sense. And history is merely prelude to the future: on a planet of cities, our survival depends on seizing some of the clues this book contains.'

    Bill McKibben - author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out

    ‘Ours is the first century in which the majority of humankind lives in cities. Nightingale in this sprawling, imaginative, and clearly written book explains how we reached this point by exploring the political and ecological roles of cities in world history from ancient Mesopotamia to modern megalopoli.'

    J. R. McNeill - author of The Webs of Humankind

    ‘Offer[s] a unique point of view that includes many valuable insights about cities …'

    David R. Conn Source: Library Journal

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