Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology
Subtitle: Cities and Technology
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780415200769
First sentence: The first settlements of an urban degree of complexity emerged, probably during the late fourth millennium BCE, in the Near Eastern region often referred to as the 'Fertile Crescent' (see Figure 1.1).