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Charlotte Peck What is the value of studying the history of urban development and planning? Urban development and planning is an effort by public authority to guide the improvement of land. The interests of economic efficiency and common welfare have to be taken into consideration. It could be said that planning has taken place for thousands of years, since the movement from temporary to permanent settlements, when buildings began to be related to territory. Catal Hiiyiik 7000bc (in central Turkey) was one of the first large settlements (with a population of several thousand residents) to develop during the Neolithic revolution. The settlement was isolated, with no network of trade centres to trade with, no organisational structure to cope with increased numbers, limited societal development and a subsistence economy. The emergence of urban civilisation saw an advance in technology. Uruk 3400 - 3100bc, one of the major cities of Mesopotamia, with a...

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