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The Evolution of the Ancient City - Urban Theory and the Archaeology of the Fertile Crescent (Paperback)
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The Evolution of the Ancient City - Urban Theory and the Archaeology of the Fertile Crescent (Paperback)
Series: Comparative Urban Studies
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Urban theory and archaeology merge to create a readable discussion
of how ancient cities came to be. Although many consider our modern
social ills to be the consequence of Capitalism, many urban
problems are traceable to pre-Capitalist times and thus are more
related to Urbanization. Ancient cities shared many characteristics
with modern cities. For instance, the ancient cities of Rome and
Carthage at the time of Christ had population densities approaching
that of Manhattan Island today. The Canaanites, fifteen hundred
years before, lived in cities oriented toward trade and dependent
upon mass production of such items as wine, olive oil, and the
pottery to contain such goods. Over three thousand years before the
Common Era, the city of Uruk was part of a larger "global system"
that resembled in its own way the globalization that we know today.
Cities first arose in Mesopotamia about 5,500 years ago, but for
5,500 years before the rise of cities the small agricultural
village was the most complex form of human social
organization-clearly there was nothing inevitable about the city.
The Evolution of the Ancient City explores what we can learn of
modern cities by tracing the development of ancient cities.
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