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| A fixed site, durable shelter, permanenet facicities for assembly, interchange, and storage. |
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| Where city functions as a geographic plexus, an economic organization, an institutional process, a theater of social action. |
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| a complex sociocultural organization that contains formal institutions and that organizes strangers into a cohesive community under the control of a centrlized authority |
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| 3 Preconditions for a City |
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| Ecological settings, technology, social organization and power. |
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| Lies at the heart of most of the theories of urban origins |
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| 4 Primary factors related to the emergence of cities |
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| Agricultural surplus, Religion, Defensive needs, Trading Requirements |
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| freed up resources so that not every person had to farm. |
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| settinga side a fixed percentage of the harvest to be gathered collectively |
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| system in w hich each farmer was compelled to pay a percentage of the harvest to the government |
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| The practice in which the government compelled individuals to work for a period of time on some grand public works |
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| A process to administer the surplus of food. |
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| Class of people concerned with explaining the supernatural and with mediating between the villagers and supernatural forces. |
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| Blending of religious and secular authority. |
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| Compelled the population to remain in place, focused around a plot of land. |
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| Increased the overall density of the population |
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Worldwide connection and influence
ex. Tokoyo, London, New york. |
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| Continuous and contiguous pattern of urbanization |
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| Mediaeval cities(small to medium) |
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| Modern cities(medium to large) |
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| Global Cities(mega-cities and cosmopolitan centers) |
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| key factors why cities grow |
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| population growth and improvement living conditions |
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| examples of living conditions |
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| transportation, security, infrastructure, management. |
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| Several small cities under one central authority. |
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| Preconditions of a location |
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| Geography, economy, and trade |
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| Riverbank, Habor, fertile hinterland, natural Fortification |
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| Production of agricultural surplus: Land fertility, irrigation, and cultivation technology. |
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| Marketplace, access to mineral resources, using and exporting it, centers of extraction and distribution. |
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