Urban Planning in Civilization

Throughout the years of mankind, many things have shaped our current cultures and societies around the world. There are many factors that have thoroughly affected all of us in the civilized world, from seemingly minor factors so long ago in history such as the invention of organized work, to big inventions like the wheel and organized councils. All of these seemingly minor factors have actually had a major impact on societies around the world. Another influential factor that has shaped our societies goes to as simple as the city’s planning’s and layouts. The classical age had interesting layouts to their cities that surprisingly worked throughout their period of time.

The period of time being referred to here is the axial age. The axial age was a time period in which a vast majority of our modern ideas were interpreted, such as religious and physiological ideas that have stood the test of time. That is why many of the cities that were built at the time contained a great number of colleges and scholarly buildings. This gave room for vast amounts of thinking. Another one of the great advances of the time was the advances in governmental area. The cities of that age had buildings that were specific to the governmental status of citizens. Some of these buildings included council homes, and governmental houses. Personal health was barely coming in to common consideration at the time, so it was not uncommon to see various public buildings such a baths, and bathrooms.

Commerce is another big factor that is essential when thinking of great cities. Without trade of any sort, then the