{"product_id":"earthopolis-a-biography-of-our-urban-planet-hardback-9781108424523","title":"Earthopolis; A Biography of Our Urban Planet (Hardback) 9781108424523","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEarthopolis\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Biography of Our Urban Planet\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarl H. Nightingale (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108424523, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 June 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e814 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 4.8 cm, 1.3 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Offer[s] a unique point of view that includes many valuable insights about cities …' David R. Conn, Library Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Our Urban Planet in Space and Time\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Before and Beyond: Big Things in Tiny Places\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Cities of the Rivers: 1. Making Politics from Sunshine, Earth, and Water\u003cbr\u003e 2. Igniting Empire\u003cbr\u003e 3. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many I\u003cbr\u003e 4. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many II\u003cbr\u003e 5. How Knowledge Became Power\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Realm of Consequence\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Cities of the World Ocean: 7. Bastions, Battleships, and Gunpowder Cities\u003cbr\u003e 8. Wealth from the Winds and Waves\u003cbr\u003e 9. Consuming the Earth in Cities of Light … and Delight\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Cities of Hydrocarbon: 10. Chimneys to Smokestacks\u003cbr\u003e 11. Planet of the People I: The Atlantic Cauldron\u003cbr\u003e 12. Planet of the People II: Feminists, Abolitionists, and los Liberales\u003cbr\u003e 13. Weapons of World Conquest\u003cbr\u003e 14. Capitalist Explosions\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Pharoahs of Flow\u003cbr\u003e 16. Planet of the People III: An Urban Majority Takes its Space\u003cbr\u003e 17. Lamps Out\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Labyrinths of Terror\u003cbr\u003e 19. Gathering Velocities I: Tailpipe Tracts and Tower Blocks\u003cbr\u003e 20. Gathering Velocities II: Liberation and Development\u003cbr\u003e 21. Greatest Accelerations I: New Empires, New Multitudes\u003cbr\u003e 22. Greatest Accelerations II: Shacks and Citadels\u003cbr\u003e 23. Greatest Accelerations III: Pleasure Palaces and Sweatshops\u003cbr\u003e 24. Greatest Accelerations IV: Maximal Hydrocarbon, Maximal Waste\u003cbr\u003e 25. 2020 Hindsight … and Foresight?\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Urban \u0026amp; municipal planning [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Urban \u0026amp; municipal planning\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Urban%20\u0026amp;%20municipal%20planning%20%5BRPC%5D%22\"\u003eRPC\u003c\/a\u003e], The environment [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The environment\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20environment%20%5BRN%5D%22\"\u003eRN\u003c\/a\u003e], Human geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Human geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Human%20geography%20%5BRGC%5D%22\"\u003eRGC\u003c\/a\u003e], Urban communities [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Urban communities\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Urban%20communities%20%5BJFSG%5D%22\"\u003eJFSG\u003c\/a\u003e], General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45908891435288,"sku":"9781108424523","price":26.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108424523i.jpg?v=1696694995","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/earthopolis-a-biography-of-our-urban-planet-hardback-9781108424523","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}