SOSC 1740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Single-Family Detached Home, Mohenjo-Daro, St Mary-Le-Bow
18 Jun 2017
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The city in history: reading guide -chapter 3 :ancestral forms and patterns. Where did the first urban civilizations develop? (55) First urban civilization developed in egypt and mesopotamia. While all these differences bring out significant alternatives in urban evolution, they make it difficult to give anything like a generalized picture of the origin of the city. What was the significance of great river systems in establishing the first urban societies? (57) The rivers themselves were the first highroads, once boats were in- vented: moving belts of water, six hundred miles long in egypt and meso- potamia, a thousand miles in the indus valley. The construction of these utilities demanded a degree of social intercourse, co-operation, and long-range planning that the old self-contained village culture, complacently accepting its limitations, did not need or encourage. The very conditions that made large urban settlements a physical possi- bility also made them a social necessity.
