Earthopolis : a biography of our urban planet / Carl H. Nightingale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nightingale, Carl Husemoller, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--History.

Sociology, Urban.

Cities and towns--History.

Cities and towns.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 810 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Fantastic Fables of the Fountain of Jericho

Camping across the Continents

It Took Many Villages

pt. ONE CITIES OF THE RIVERS

1. Making Politics from Sunshine, Earth, and Water

The Goddess and the Conundrum

Through the Valleys of the Sunlight of Urban Birth

Proximity Power

How Earth Got Its Polis

Power and the City

2. Igniting Empire

Cities and Empires: Some Basic Rules

The Sparks of Imperium

Changan and Rome

Furniture of Administration

Habitats of Violence

Empires' Outer Limits

3. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many I

The Great Urban Wealth-Grab

Making Money from Sunshine, Hard Labor, and Slavery

The Energies - and Politics - of Shops

Shops beyond the Streets

4. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many II

"The Rarities of the World": Mercantile Capital

Merchants and Money in the Bit Karum

The Politics of Merchant Capitalism

The Built Habitat of Long-Distance Commerce

5. How Knowledge Became Power

Civilization, Propaganda, and Their Discontents

Cities' Axial Age

Launching "World Religions" in Asia

Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca: Three Cities of the One God

"Civilization" at the Limits

6. The Realm of Consequence

Inanna's Wager, 5,500 Years On

Gods of Life and Wrath

Microbes and Humans: An Urban Death Dance

Fields, Forests, and Their Discontents

Furies of Silt, Smoke, Mud, and Gas

pt. TWO CITIES OF THE WORLD OCEAN

7. Bastions, Battleships, and Gunpowder Cities

A Global Urban Arms Race

The State of the Great Imperial Capitals

Bastions of the Oceans

Urban Oceans in Play: The Indian and the Pacific

Urban Oceans in Play: The Atlantic

8. Wealth from the Winds and Waves

Oceans of Capitalists

The Silver Circle

Cities of Stolen Land and Labor

Cities of Spice and Segregation

Money from Thin Air and Hard Ground

9. Consuming the Earth in Cities of Light and Delight

New Dawns on Dark Oceans

Light from Heaven and Earth

Cities of Delight

Consuming the Earth and the Oceans

pt. THREE CITI ES OF H Y DROC ARBON

10. Chimneys to Smokestacks

Why London? And Other Questions

Spirals of Cities and Coal

The Calculations of a Coal Capitalist

The Twisting Rise of the Smokestack

11. Planet of the People I: The Adantic Cauldron

Cities and Revolutions

The Cauldron Bubbles

Boston versus London

Playing People's Politics in Paris

12. Planet of the People II: Feminists, Abolitionists, and los liberates

Feminism and Emancipation

Revolution of the Enslaved

Revolution of the americanos

13. Weapons of World Conquest

Cities and Empires (Again)

Gun Cities

Gateways to Conquest, "Stations" of Rule

Concessions in the East

Let Loose the Settlers

Starting Gates of the Scramble

The Urban Planet's Great Gap

14. Capitalist Explosions

An Earthopolis of, by, and Fixed for the Capitalists?

More Plot Twists in Smokestack Cities

Cities of Iron and Steel

The Tentacles of Capital: Tracks, Pipes, and Cables

Skyscrapers and Smoke: The Ascendance of Carbon Capitalism

15. The Pharaohs of Flow

Taming Furies with Flows (and Segregation and Sprawl)

The Great Wen and the Pestilential Vapor Bath

Baron of the Boulevards

A Planet of Flows

16. Planet of the People III: An Urban Majority Takes Its Space

The People and the Urban Acceleration

A Majority on the Move

Into the "Slums"

The Fight for the City

Workers of Earthopolis, Unite!

17. Lamps Out

Bright Lights and Powder Kegs: The Belle Epoque

Explosions to the East

Urban Planetary War

Red Petrograd

High Tide of Global Urban Radicalism

The Racist Counterrevolution

Fascists on the March

18. The Labyrinths of Terror

The Transgressive Twentieth Century

The "King of Munich" Takes "Red Berlin"

The Labyrinths of Tokyo and Moscow

Armageddon of the Hydrocarbon City

Concentration and Genocide

"Urbicide" from the Air

19. Gathering Velocities I: Tailpipe Tracts and Tower Blocks

A Cold War in the Kitchen

Anti-urban Planning

Crisis, Cars, and the Outskirts

From Crisis to Segregated Sprawl in the USA

Crisis, Concrete, and More Crisis in the USSR

The Iron Curtain on the Urban Periphery

20. Gathering Velocities II: Liberation and "Development"

Revolution Deepens and Widens

The "Proto-Third Worlds"

Satyagraha vs. Soldiers in Colonized Space

The "Village Road" and the "City Road" to Liberation

Overthrowing the Settler City

Capitals of Development

21. Greatest Accelerations I: New Empires, New Multitudes

Acceleration Conundrums

Superpower in Bricks and Mortar

From Plenty to Austerity: The Capitals of Capital Shift in Space and Mood

Building for Longer - and Many More - Lives

Feeding the Multitudes?

The Harrowing of the Villages

22. Greatest Accelerations II: Shacks and Citadels

The Planetary Urban Land War

Hollow Echoes from the Kitchen

Global Apartheid

The Gilded Urban Land Grab

Chai Qian Worldwide

Cities of the Poor

The Conundrum of "Slums"

23. Greatest Accelerations III: Pleasure Palaces and Sweatshops

Orbits of Want and Work

A Planet of Desire

A Planet of Toil

The Sub-proletariat of Work Makers and City Makers

24. Great Accelerations IV: Maximal Hydrocarbon, Maximal Waste

The View from Ghazipur Mountain

The Human Lithosphere

Hydrocarbon Zenith: Cities of Oil

Laying Waste to Earthopolis

Annexing the Atmosphere

25. 2020 Hindsight and Foresight?

An Earthopolis of Hope?

Exploding Urban Planetary Knowledge

Cities of the Sun

States of Just (and Unjust) Transition

Whose Streets?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 684-740) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781108424523

110842452X

OCLC:

1334012032