PSYC 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fertile Crescent, Culturology, Murder Of Kitty Genovese
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Cities are currently growing and we know very little about the long term impacts. Guliani changed attitude toward focusing on a positive attitude. Tokyo is the biggest city topped one million in 1805. London topped one million 215yrs ago humans have been around 100,000 yrs 0. 2% of human history. Each species has a size pack, herd, pride, flock, school . Each is a small number that is set for the species. There are no other creature that clusters into communities of 1 mil. Pre-history of urban life (99. 8% of human history) The fertile crescent was one of the first areas. Around 3000bc the first place cities formed was the middle east, egypt and. 2) these cities disappeared were not permanent (hard to imagine a modern city disappearing) Cities are increasing in size, population, and percentage. Old times cities were very spread out not now. Skyscraper was to describe the flatiron building (the 1st skyscraper)