GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Edward Soja, Animal Husbandry, Urban History
27 Apr 2016
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Lecture 15 origins of cities and urbanism: two main views on urbanization and agriculture. Making more than you can eat so you can store for a rainy day. Grain could be stored support larger populations. Avoid food insecurity support non-agriculture occupations (cid:0) cities. 2) cities pre-date agricultural advances cities are the impetus and incubators of innovations that made agricultural surplus possible: 8500 bce general shift away from hunting and gathering (cid:0) domesticated agriculture and animal husbandry. Different in all parts of the world. Big difference being able to control production, get higher yields: in all early cities: division of labour and new degrees of social hierarchy. Difference between village and city about social and economic differentiation more than about size: shift to surplus in agricultural production possible to specialize occupations: crafts, arts of war, philosophy, trade. Excavations in palestine and turkey reveal that large, dense, permanent settlements pre-date agricultural revolution. Depends on definition of city and urbanism .
