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Where do cities\u2026 come from? Are they created by committee? Or do they just spring up out of the earth? Adam explores this question with journalist Annalee Newitz, author of the new book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age. They take an audio tour from Cahokia, an indigenous city near St. Louis that somehow got left out of American textbook; the Neolithic city of \xc7atalh\xf6y\xfck, where people buried their ancestors under their living room floors; Angkor, which declined due to lack of government care of infrastructure; and everyone\u2019s favorite lost city - Pompeii! You can find Four Lost Cities wherever books are sold.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\n\nSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.