Earthopolis
A Biography of Our Urban Planet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19929592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl H Nightingale (0000-0002-6247-6448, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Earthopolis (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108339353 |
| OpenAlex | W4229445588 |
| ISBN | 9781108339353 |
| Open Library | OL57761361M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
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
Action (physics) · Class (philosophy) · Democracy · Geography · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citations per year | 1.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |