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Title Four lost cities [sound recording audiobook download] : A secret history of the urban age. Annalee Newitz.
PUBLISHER Prince Frederick : HighBridge Audio, 2021.
Description 1 online resource (8 audio files) : digital
Edition Unabridged.


Note Unabridged.
Performer Narrator: Chloe Cannon.
Summary In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners 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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Add'l Names Cannon, Chloe.
ISBN 9781696600392
STANDARD # 830D2469-380B-4C81-9827-12C0AD673903 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
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