: Introduction to Urban Sociology

What were the conditions that had led to the rise of the urban?

Advances in agriculture

The evolution of the Neolithic village into a city took at least 1500 years (from 5000 to 3500 BCE).

• For the Neolithic human beings village and home were the creations of the women. Nurture, protection and fecundity were the main tasks that had to be performed.


• Wherever containers were found we could assume that there was surplus.


• One of the first feats performed by early engineers was a hole dug in the ground and sun-dried to brick hardness in Mesopotemia.


• The technological developments that made it possible for humankind to live in urban places were at first mainly advances in agriculture.