Before the smokestacks of Manchester, the gridirons of Chicago, or the suburbs of Los Angeles, there was a different kind of city. The pre-industrial urban form—spanning from the first cities of Mesopotamia (c. 3500 BCE) to the eve of the Industrial Revolution (c. 1750 CE)—was defined not by machines or fossil fuels, but by
The history of urban form before the Industrial Revolution covers approximately 5,000 years of human settlement, characterized by the transition from organic, nomadic existence to highly structured political and economic centers Before the smokestacks of Manchester, the gridirons of
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