Cities as the Most Human Habitat

With the invention of agriculture, humans have naturally started to congregate together in larger and larger groups. The need for more people combined with the increased food production in a decreased amount of space creates a natural draw toward the cities, allowing for greater cultural development as well as technological advancement. If agriculture is a part of what makes us human, then cities are the way humans are meant to live.

However, with the modern development, this natural way of congregating has become separated from what formed it. While agriculture allows cities to be, it does not form the core of the city, and the city then becomes distanced from the earth. Modern environmental movements push to return cities to their natural roots, however, bringing nature back into the human landscape that has developed. In this way, cities become closer to their traditional role, although still distinct from early cities, and provide an inherently more human habitat that reawakens its ties with human development and the birth of an agricultural society from one that was once entirely hunter-gatherer.