![]() ![]() ![]() Pompeii was famously obliterated by a volcanic eruption in 79 C.E., but before it then exemplified a diverse society whose folkways survived beyond the city’s ruins. Catalhoyuk, located in present-day Turkey 9,000 years ago, marked humanity’s uneasy shift from farming communities to a dense city until sustained cold and drought unraveled the place. To do that, they select a quartet of once-mighty metropolises. Newitz is interested in how cities form, grow, and dissipate, and the author trains their focus on how everyday lives were affected by those processes. An exploration of four far-flung ancient cities, each undone by climate and politics.Īn alternate title for this book might be A People’s History of Urbanism. ![]()
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