Module 1: From rural to urban
  Lecture 3: How did the urban community emerge? (continued)
 

 

V. Gordon Childe (1892-1957)

  • V. Gordon Childe was an Australian archeologist who is credited with coining the term 'urban revolution'.

  • The term urban revolution refers to the processes by which agricultural village societies developed into socially, economically and politically complex urban societies.
  • Childe identified ten formal criteria that according to his system indicate the development of urban civilization: