KERA's Think

Best of Think: A look at four lost cities … and why they disappeared


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Urban planners look to present day metropolises to guide the future; what if, instead, they looked to cities of the ancient past? Annalee Newitz, contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about cities that lasted millennia and then disappeared, and the answers they can provide for how we live together today. Her book is “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age.”
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