• Emergence of New Social Relationships Between People in Cities

As human settlements increased in size and complexity, the social networks based on kinship relations began to break down. In a village community organized around extended families, everyone knew each other and interacted with other community members in close, face-to-face relationships.

• Emergence of New Social Relationships between People of Cities and People in Villages

While rural and urban areas are separated mainly by traditional administrative boundaries, they are nonetheless profoundly interconnected through various complex relationships. These relationships originate from the differing characteristics of the rural and urban territories, enabling each to complement the other’s assets and help address the other’s shortcomings, potentially unlocking socio-economic benefits for both. The rural and urban linkages works for benefit of both.

• The Rise and Fall of Cities and Changes in Political Order

Changing Kinship Societies into Tribulatory Societies was a crucial element in this Regard.As human settlements increased in size and complexity, the social networks based on kinship relations began to break down. In a village community organized around extended families, everyone knew each other and interacted with other members of their community in close face-to-face relationships. This become more and more complicated with increasing urbanism.

(Sociologists define urbanism simply as ‘a way of life’. It displays an organization of society in the context of a complex division of labour, high levels of technology, high mobility, and interdependence amongst its residents in achieving better economic functions and impersonality in social relations.)

• The Growth of Cities based on the Productive Process of Cities altering the Economic Base of the City

• The Physical Expansion of Cities

Cities also grow through physical expansion processes such as expansion and sprawl.