The civilized urban revolution in turn was dependent upon the development of sedentarism, the domestication of grains and animals and development of lifestyles that facilitated economies of scale and accumulation of surplus production by certain social sectors.
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His " the Coming of the French Revolution " identified four key champions : the aristocracy ( which prevented monarchical reform ), the bourgeoisie, the urban revolution ( storming the Bastille ), and the peasant revolution.
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The earliest emergence of civilizations is generally associated with the final stages of the Neolithic Revolution, culminating in the relatively rapid process of urban revolution and state formation, a political development associated with the appearance of a governing elite.
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He was also renowned for his emphasis on the role of revolutionary technological and economic developments in human society, such as the Neolithic Revolution and the Urban Revolution, in this manner being influenced by Marxist ideas on societal development.
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The creation of early predecessors of urban areas during the urban revolution led to the creation of human civilization with modern urban planning, which along with other human activities such as exploitation of natural resources leads to human impact on the environment.
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Gordon Childe defined the development of civilization as the result of two successive revolutions : the Neolithic Revolution, triggering the development of settled communities, and the Urban Revolution, which enhanced tendencies towards dense settlements, specialized occupational groups, social classes, exploitation of surpluses, monumental public buildings and writing.
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These included the Neolithic Revolution, when hunter-gatherers began settling in permanent farming communities, through to the Urban Revolution, when society progressed from a series of small towns through to the first cities, and right up to more recent times, when the Industrial Revolution changed the nature of production.
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From its inception, the paper advocated a constitution to be granted by revolutionary events of 1848-49 . As editor of the newspaper, Cavour gained a great degree of influence in Sardinian politics; in an editorial on 23 March he pressed for a war to drive the Austrians from Lombardy and Venice, where urban revolutions were under way.
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Jeb Brugmann in his book " Welcome to the Urban Revolution : How Cities Are Changing the World " ( Bloomsbury Press, 2009 ) says we need to become " masters of a stable, just, and ecological urbanism . " For Brugmann, " The first step towards ecological urbanism is increasing the energy and nutrient productivity within the city, but the only way to move sufficiently from extractive mode to a sustainable productive mode is to think, design, and develop at the scale of the City ."
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MP Tom Driberg made a speech in an adjournment debate in February 1961, quoting a statement by Sir Mortimer Wheeler published in " The Times " the previous day, saying that " Professor Pevsner has placed the threatened London Coal Exchange among the twelve irreplaceable buildings of 19th century England . . . It expresses an era of urban revolution as no other surviving building is capable of doing . . . The Coal Exchange is a national monument in the fullest sense of the phrase, and its destruction would be unforgivable ."
