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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