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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 sixcontinent sixmillennium tour of the worlds 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 Planets 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 Earthopoliss past to rescue its future