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  • A Secret History of the Urban Age
  • Written by: Annalee Newitz
  • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
  • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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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.
©2021 Annalee Newitz (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Sociology Archaeology Ancient World Earth Sciences Urban Nonfiction
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GREAT BOOK - bad narration

This book is fenomenal.
It takes you into a voyage to the past, and makes you see how relatable past civilizations are from us.
Great commentary about culture and how colonialist erases the true history of humanity.
I loved the book but HATED the narration.
I felt like a robot with no emotions was reading a fantastic story to me. It was hard to get into it and sometimes it just pissed me off so much I had t listen to something else. I hope Audiobook re-release this book with a different narrator. I would love to listen to it again.

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