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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

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By (author): Annalee Newitz

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 centre of a sophisticated civilisation: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman town of Pompeii on Italys southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia and the indigenous American 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 workersslaves, women, immigrants and manual labourerswho 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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Product Details
  • Weight: 255g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780393882452

About Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is a journalist and author of science fiction and nonfiction including the national best-seller Four Lost Cities. They write for the New York Times and New Scientist and co-host the Hugo Awardwinning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. They live in San Francisco.

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