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c. 7400–6200 BCE

When Houses Became a City

Çatalhöyük

Dense mudbrick house clusters at Çatalhöyük.
The excavated Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük, Konya Province, Türkiye.Murat Özsoy 1958 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source record

The Moment

A dense settlement developed without conventional streets, with movement often occurring across rooftops.

The Rethink

A city did not necessarily have to look like the cities we recognize today.