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Urban Revolution
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•Gordon Childe -Link between city and civilization.
•City is an outcome of a revolution - progressive change in economic structure and social organization •Increased size of settlement and density of population determined by natural resources, techniques for their exploitation, means of transport, food preservation, etc. •Urban revolution guaranteed security for specialists in a social organization •Refers to the emergence of first urban centers in the Nile, Tigris-Euphrates and Indus river basins five thousand years ago |
