Earthopolis A Biography of Our Urban Planet by Carl H. Nightingale 9781108349208 110834920X

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• ISBN 10: 110834920X
• ISBN 13: 9781108349208
• Author: Carl H. Nightingale

Earthopolis
A Biography of Our Urban Planet

Table contents:

Part One: Cities of the Rivers
1 Making Politics from Sunshine, Earth, and Water
The Goddess and the Conundrum
Through the Valleys of the Sunlight of Urban Birth
Proximity Power
How Earth Got Its Polis
Power and the City
2 Igniting Empire
Cities and Empires: Some Basic Rules
The Sparks of Imperium
Changan and Rome
Furniture of Administration
Habitats of Violence
Empires’ Outer Limits
3 Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many I
The Great Urban Wealth-Grab
Making Money from Sunshine, Hard Labor, and Slavery
The Energies – and Politics – of Shops
Shops beyond the Streets
4 Wealth for a Few, Poverty for Many II
“The Rarities of the World”: Mercantile Capital
Merchants and Money in the Bit Kārum
The Politics of Merchant Capitalism
The Built Habitat of Long-Distance Commerce
5 How Knowledge Became Power
Civilization, Propaganda, and Their Discontents
Cities’ Axial Age
Launching “World Religions” in Asia
Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca: Three Cities of the One God
“Civilization” at the Limits
6 The Realm of Consequence
Inanna’s Wager, 5,500 Years On
Gods of Life and Wrath
Microbes and Humans: An Urban Death Dance
Fields, Forests, and Their Discontents
Furies of Silt, Smoke, Mud, and Gas
Part Two: Cities of the World Ocean
7 Bastions, Battleships, and Gunpowder Cities
A Global Urban Arms Race
The State of the Great Imperial Capitals
Bastions of the Oceans
Urban Oceans in Play: The Indian and the Pacific
Urban Oceans in Play: The Atlantic
8 Wealth from the Winds and Waves
Oceans of Capitalists
The Silver Circle
Cities of Stolen Land and Labor
Cities of Spice and Segregation
Money from Thin Air … and Hard Ground
9 Consuming the Earth in Cities of Light … and Delight
New Dawns on Dark Oceans
Light from Heaven and Earth
Cities of Delight
Consuming the Earth … and the Oceans
Part three: Cities of Hydrocarbon
10 Chimneys to Smokestacks
Why London? And Other Questions
Spirals of Cities and Coal
The Calculations of a Coal Capitalist
The Twisting Rise of the Smokestack
11 Planet of the People I: The Atlantic Cauldron
Cities and Revolutions
The Cauldron Bubbles
Boston versus London
Playing People’s Politics in Paris
12 Planet of the People II: Feminists, Abolitionists, and los liberales
Feminism and Emancipation
Revolution of the Enslaved
Revolution of the américanos
13 Weapons of World Conquest
Cities and Empires (Again)
Gun Cities
Gateways to Conquest, “Stations” of Rule
Concessions in the East
Let Loose the Settlers
Starting Gates of the Scramble
The Urban Planet’s Great Gap
14 Capitalist Explosions
An Earthopolis of, by, and Fixed for the Capitalists?
More Plot Twists in Smokestack Cities
Cities of Iron and Steel
The Tentacles of Capital: Tracks, Pipes, and Cables
Skyscrapers and Smoke: The Ascendance of Carbon Capitalism
15 The Pharaohs of Flow
Taming Furies with Flows (… and Segregation and Sprawl)
The Great Wen and the Pestilential Vapor Bath
Baron of the Boulevards
A Planet of Flows
16 Planet of the People III: An Urban Majority Takes Its Space
The People and the Urban Acceleration
A Majority on the Move
Into the “Slums”
The Fight for the City
Workers of Earthopolis, Unite!
17 Lamps Out
Bright Lights and Powder Kegs: the Belle Époque
Explosions to the East
Urban Planetary War
Red Petrograd
High Tide of Global Urban Radicalism
The Racist Counterrevolution
Fascists on the March
18 The Labyrinths of Terror
The Transgressive Twentieth Century
The “King of Munich” Takes “Red Berlin”
The Labyrinths of Tokyo and Moscow
Armageddon of the Hydrocarbon City
Concentration and Genocide
“Urbicide” from the Air
19 Gathering Velocities I: Tailpipe Tracts and Tower Blocks
A Cold War in the Kitchen
Anti-urban Planning
Crisis, Cars, and the Outskirts
From Crisis to Segregated Sprawl in the USA
Crisis, Concrete, and More Crisis in the USSR
The Iron Curtain on the Urban Periphery
20 Gathering Velocities II: Liberation and “Development”
Revolution Deepens and Widens
The “Proto-Third Worlds”
Satyagraha vs. Soldiers in Colonized Space
The “Village Road” and the “City Road” to Liberation
Overthrowing the Settler City
Capitals of Development
21 Greatest Accelerations I: New Empires, New Multitudes
Acceleration Conundrums
Superpower in Bricks and Mortar
From Plenty to Austerity: The Capitals of Capital Shift in Space and Mood
Building for Longer – and Many More – Lives
Feeding the Multitudes?
The Harrowing of the Villages
22 Greatest Accelerations II: Shacks and Citadels
The Planetary Urban Land War
Hollow Echoes from the Kitchen
Global Apartheid
The Gilded Urban Land Grab
Chai Qian Worldwide
Cities of the Poor
The Conundrum of “Slums”
23 Greatest Accelerations III: Pleasure Palaces and Sweatshops
Orbits of Want and Work
A Planet of Desire
A Planet of Toil
The Sub-proletariat of Work Makers and City Makers
24 Great Accelerations IV: Maximal Hydrocarbon, Maximal Waste
The View from Ghazipur Mountain
The Human Lithosphere
Hydrocarbon Zenith: Cities of Oil
Laying Waste to Earthopolis
Annexing the Atmosphere
25 2020 Hindsight … and Foresight?
An Earthopolis of Hope?
Exploding Urban Planetary Knowledge
Cities of the Sun
States of Just (and Unjust) Transition
Whose Streets?

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