Richard L Currier

Examines the art of city planning as it was in ancient times, and describes some of the oldest planned cities, now in ruins, ofGreece, the Roman Empire, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.

"Human life has been repeatedly transformed by certain key technologies, each of which has triggered a profound metamorphosis. The fabrication of weapons, the mastery of fire, and the technologies of clothing and shelter transformed the human body, enabling us to walk upright, shed our body hair, and migrate out of tropical Africa into temperate climates. Symbolic communication changed human evolution from a slow biological process into a fast cultural...