Episode 19 - "Coruscant: The Most American City"


Urbanism and the Galactic Capital


Sources

Onscreen Media

•Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

•Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (Special Edition) (1997)

•Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)

•Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

•Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

•Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) – S2 Ep11 - Lightsaber Lost, S5 Ep19 - To Catch a Jedi, S7 Ep5 - Gone With a Trace

•The Mandalorian (2019) S3 Ep3 - The Convert

•Andor (2022)  – S1 Ep4 - Aldhani, S1 Ep7 - Announcement

•Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023)


Novels

•Victory’s Price by Alexander Freed

•One Thousand Levels Down (short story) by Alexander Freed

•Tarkin by James Luceno

•Thrawn by Timothy Zahn

•Lost Stars by Claudia Gray

•Aftermath: Empire's End by Chuck Wendig


Comics

•Star Wars (2020) #36

•Star Wars Adventures (2017) #25


Reference Books

•Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo

•Complete Locations (2005) by Simon Beecroft, Kristin Lund, and various

•Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune

•Encyclopédie - Coruscant (French edition) by Carlos Palomar

•Build the Millennium Falcon 53 by Continuo Creative

•Helmet Collection 28 by De Agostini

•The Essential Atlas by Jason Fry and Daniel Wallace

Complete Vehicles, New Edition by Jason Fry and Pablo Hidalgo

Collapse of the Republic by Fantasy Flight Games

Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded by various


Web Sources

Coruscant on starwars.com/databank

The Outlander Club on starwars.com/databank

”What is the population of…Coruscant” by Ben Choucroun on quora.com

“How can Coruscant support a population of 1 trillion?” on quora.com

[Star Wars] Coruscant food supply? on reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction

So how do Coruscant levels work? by u/Mzonnik on reddit.com/r/MawInstallation

The Levels of Coruscant Explained by Sspikee on starwars.fandom.com

The Modern Star Wars Universe Owes Its Existence To… by Bryan Young on slashfilm.com

A History of Coruscant on numidianprime.wordpress.com

A Case for Starting Over, Part I: The Road to Coruscant by Alexander Gaultier on eleven-thirtyeight.com

How the Levels on Coruscant Work by Star Wars Explained on youtube.com

Episode LXXVI…an Interview with Timothy Zahn on swactionnews.com (web.archive link)

Ghetto on wikipedia.org

Sky Lobby on wikipedia.org

Ecumenopolises by Isaac Arthur on youtube.com

Arcologies by Isaac Arthur on youtube.com

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Low Life: Revisiting Robert Moses’s Exclusionary Design Scheme by Liza Curtiss, Corey Kingston, and Emily R. Pellerin on archive.pinupmagazine.org

A ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America by Terry Gross on npr.org

Ghettoization on encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org

Elevator conundrum on elevation.fandom.com


Wookieepedia Pages

Coruscant

Coruscant (Legends)

The Works

Coruscant Underworld

Coruscant underworld (Legends)

Forbidden levels

Coruscant weather control

Coruscant WeatherNet (Legends)

Coruscant Air Traffic Control

Fire Team Three

Undercity Meats

XJ-6 airspeeder

XJ-6 airspeeder (Legends)

Coruscant's provisional government

Hovertrain

Alien Protection Zone