GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paternalism, Urban Revolution
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Key concept 1: cities provide a detailed record of urban values, ideas, and choices: contemporary urban systems, structures, and infrastructures, are built incrementally on prior systems, cities provide evidence of past decisions, understand how problems were understood, helps understand the institutions we work with today, understanding why. Irrigation system is require a governance system that can mobilize large investments: early cities were almost always established at key locations on rivers, rural patterns of land use, irrigation systems, canals, etc. then have long term impacts on urban pattern, suggest that economic factors are the most important in urban development, settlements established at military strategic locations form the core of long term settlements, military pattern remains influential long after strategic value of settlement is gone, centres that are important for religious reasons are the starting point for many cities globally, religious theory ex: jerusalem, mecca, rome,
