Earthopolis : a biography of our urban planet /

Earthopolis : a biography of our urban planet /

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Author / Creator:	Nightingale, Carl Husemoller, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xiv, 810 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Sociology, Urban -- History. Cities and towns -- History. Cities and towns. Sociology, Urban. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12774533

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ISBN:	9781108424523 110842452X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 684-740) and index.
Summary:	"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." -- book jacket.

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