Perkembangan Kota
Oleh:
Ema Umilia
16 Pebruari 2010
Pre-Urban Development
Phase 1 Paleolithic Age 600,000-10,000 BC
(Savagery)
A food and hunting economy
Phase 2 Neolithic Age 10,000-3500 BC
(Barbarism)
Cultivation of edible plants and domestication of
animal
Phase 3 Bronze Age 3,500-1,000 BC
‘civilization’,
Writing, recording, and social organisation
The Development of Pre-
historic settlement
North East Africa: EGYPT (6000 BC)
Temporary settlement of Nomads in upper Nile Valey
Pre-Village Culture
Developed village culture and proto- urban forms of settled
population
Growth of small towns based on earlier villages in Nile Delta
and Upper Nile (eg.NAGADE, HIERAKONPOLIS) – guine
urban form: merchants, craftsmen and agricultural hinterland.
First independent and spontaneous urban settlement of artisans
and merchants
Pre-Dynastic Era: small town struggle from autonomy againts
kings and feudal
Union into old Empire
Earliest city dated from this time (3100 BC)
The Development of Pre-
historic settlement
Ethyopia and the Sudan (3000-2000 B.C)
Trace of pre-urban civilization (art form, stones)
found between Red Sea and Great Lakes to South;
but cannot determine a definite pre or protourban
development as in Egypt. Arabia and Southern Asia
may have influenced.
Village culture exist until this period, when feudal
settlement of invading dynasties occur.
Birth of city preceded here, as elsewhere by ‘Priest
town’ or holy town and rules’s settlement.
The Development of Pre-
historic settlement
Mesopotamia (5000-3500 BC)
Man forced to cultivate fertile river strips. High turnover of
tribes pushing each other out of fertile areas. Exact location of
first villages unknown.
Assyria: Hassuna : Jarmo : Halaf : (5000-4000 B.C)
regarded as the earliest settled placed in agricultural
Mesopotamia. Huts, tent, eventually villages.
Region of River Delta (4400-3900 BC)
Emergence of a new tribe of people.
Villages; Tell el obeid-gawra
Eridu-lagash
Elam Region = susa (4000-3000 BC)
In the plain at foot of persian high plateau.
The Development of Pre-
historic settlement
The Levant (Asia-Afrika)
Lebanon (Byblos) 4500-2700 B.C
4500 : layer 1: village of farmer and fisherman
3800 : layer 2: village; paved streets
3500 : layer 3: trade and craft flourish
3200 : layer 4: residential town without palace or
temple but with proper harbour, fortufied by strong
wall.
2900 : layer 5: city, palace and temple
2700 : layer 6: city, palace and temple.
Origin and Evaluation of Cities (from village cultures),
(by: Gordon Childe)
What distinguishes city from village?
1. Size
2. Social structure (specialists)
3. Concentration of social surplus
4. Existence of monumental public buildings
5. Presence of a ‘rulling class’
6. Existence of a system of writing and numeral notation
7. Development of exact and predictive science: Arithmatic,
Geomatry, Astronomy
8. Artistic expression
9. Tradlho dah bae – importation of raw material
10. Specialist craftmen belong politically and economically to the
city
Three Basic Human Needs