CITB02H3 Lecture 12: CITB02 – Week 12 - Detailed Lecture Notes - Fall 2014
Document Summary
Cities are products of social, economic and political relations and cultural practices. Main concepts and main themes of course. Disciplinary vs. interdisciplinary: advantages and disadvantages, no clear consensus of one being better than the other. Dimensions of urban research: quantitative and qualitative, cross-sectional & longitudinal research. Lecture 2: the origins and evolution of cities. We looked at the origins of cities. We looked at work by gordon childe. Changes in the social structures that occurred as a result of the. Neolithic/agricultural revolution that produced the first permanent human settlements. There is an academic debate whether those early neolithic villages cant. Gordon childe argues they wouldn"t be considered cities due to certain already by considered cities characteristics missing. He said the emergence of cities occurred during/after the urban revolution in mesopotamia, nile valley, & indus valley. Gordon childe came up with a list of the 10 criteria that he thinks define what a city is.
