SOSC 1731 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Utopia, Deioces, Medes

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1731
• Professor: Lewis Code

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Mumford"s statement here wishes to prove that the size of a populaion does not, in and of itself, warrant the labelling of a village community as a city . The collecive shit away from the wisdom of a council of older (and slower) members of the community to a popular leader is the point in which the iniial city began to take shape. Village culture, in all its archaism, was one that encouraged ferility and growth, whereas the urban nature of the city was one of advancement, yet also of destrucion. There is no desire for more, and as long as there was no shortage of anything they needed to survive, they would be saisied. Because of the role of culivaion, an important product of the village life a surplus was formed, and because of its existence, the city mentality was born.