Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Earthopolis A Biography Of Our Urban Planet
Author(s): Nightingale Carl H. (State University Of New York Buffalo)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108424523
Pages: 814 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 6/9/2022
Category: General & World History