urban society
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urban societies
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"Rapid environmental change fostered inequality, political consolidation, and the ideologies of the world's first urban society."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
"This was a literate, urban society where people had separate spaces for habitation, burial practices and industrial work," Mr Kumar says, noting it's the first large, well-defined ancient urban settlement found in southern India.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
My book, “Seattle from the Margins,” retells this early history from the perspective of those pushed to the margins of urban society.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
Mr. Powell acknowledged that “the needs and complexities of a vast urban society require types of regulation and control that were quite unnecessary in earlier times.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
Letters of credit afford a striking illustration of the ill-adaptation of our American common law of contract to the needs of modern business in an urban society of highly complex economic organization.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
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