The Resource Four lost cities : a secret history of the urban age, Annalee Newitz
Four lost cities : a secret history of the urban age, Annalee Newitz
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Isbn
- 9780393652673
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- Label
- Four lost cities : a secret history of the urban age
- Title
- Four lost cities
- Title remainder
- a secret history of the urban age
- Statement of responsibility
- Annalee Newitz
- Subject
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- Antiquities
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) -- Antiquities
- Cambodia -- Angkor (Extinct city)
- Electronic books
- Extinct cities
- Extinct cities
- Illinois -- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park
- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
- Angkor (Extinct city)
- Pompéi (Ville ancienne)
- Turkey -- Çatal Mound
- Villes disparues, en ruines, etc
- Çatal Höyük (Turquie)
- Çatal Mound (Turkey)
- Pompeii (Extinct city)
- Angkor (Ville ancienne)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Newitz, Annalee
- Dewey number
- 930.1
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- CC176
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- OverDrive, Inc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Extinct cities
- Villes disparues, en ruines, etc
- Antiquities
- Extinct cities
- Çatal Mound (Turkey)
- Pompeii (Extinct city)
- Angkor (Extinct city)
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)
- Çatal Höyük (Turquie)
- Pompéi (Ville ancienne)
- Angkor (Ville ancienne)
- Cambodia
- Illinois
- Italy
- Turkey
- Label
- Four lost cities : a secret history of the urban age, Annalee Newitz
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- cr
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- Color
- multicolored
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- File format
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- Form of item
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- Isbn
- 9780393652673
- Level of compression
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- Media category
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Subject
- Antiquities
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) -- Antiquities
- Cambodia -- Angkor (Extinct city)
- Electronic books
- Extinct cities
- Extinct cities
- Illinois -- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park
- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
- Angkor (Extinct city)
- Pompéi (Ville ancienne)
- Turkey -- Çatal Mound
- Villes disparues, en ruines, etc
- Çatal Höyük (Turquie)
- Çatal Mound (Turkey)
- Pompeii (Extinct city)
- Angkor (Ville ancienne)
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