Earthopolis - Nightingale, Carl H.

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
State University of New York, Buffalo

Sommaire:
Introduction: Our Urban Planet in Space and Time; Prologue: Before and Beyond: Big Things in Tiny Places; Part I. Cities of the Rivers: 1. Making Politics from Sunshine, Earth, and Water; 2. Igniting Empire; 3. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many I; 4. Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many II; 5. How Knowledge Became Power; 6. The Realm of Consequence; Part II. Cities of the World Ocean: 7. Bastions, Battleships, and Gunpowder Cities; 8. Wealth from the Winds and Waves; 9. Consuming the Earth in Cities of Light ? and Delight; Part III. Cities of Hydrocarbon: 10. Chimneys to Smokestacks; 11. Planet of the People I: The Atlantic Cauldron; 12. Planet of the People II: Feminists, Abolitionists, and los Liberales; 13. Weapons of World Conquest; 14. Capitalist Explosions; 15. The Pharoahs of Flow; 16. Planet of the People III: An Urban Majority Takes its Space; 17. Lamps Out; 18. The Labyrinths of Terror; 19. Gathering Velocities I: Tailpipe Tracts and Tower Blocks; 20. Gathering Velocities II: Liberation and Development; 21. Greatest Accelerations I: New Empires, New Multitudes; 22. Greatest Accelerations II: Shacks and Citadels; 23. Greatest Accelerations III: Pleasure Palaces and Sweatshops; 24. Greatest Accelerations IV: Maximal Hydrocarbon, Maximal Waste; 25. 2020 Hindsight ? and Foresight?; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index.