9780393652666-0393652661-Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

ISBN-13: 9780393652666
ISBN-10: 0393652661
Edition: First Edition
Author: Annalee Newitz
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780393652666
ISBN-10: 0393652661
Edition: First Edition
Author: Annalee Newitz
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (ISBN-13: 9780393652666 and ISBN-10: 0393652661), written by authors Annalee Newitz, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Ancient Civilizations History (Civilization & Culture, World History, Geography, Earth Sciences, Geology, Urban, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Ancient Civilizations History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.35.

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A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history--and figure out why people abandoned them.

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy's southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.

Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers--slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers--who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia.

Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.

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