Prerequisites for City Growth
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Sociologist Gideon Sjoberg identified three prerequisites for city development: a favorable environment for food and water, technology producing a food surplus, and stable social organization.
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A settlement with fertile land, surplus-producing farming, and a functioning legal system meets Sjoberg's three prerequisites for city growth.
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Meeting these prerequisites explains how a city becomes possible, not why a city grows to any particular size.
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