With the raise of human civilization, people started to organize and live in communities. When those communities were born in ancient times, soon they started to expand. The history of urbanization is still happening and there is an interesting phenomena happening through the ages because it is constantly progressing and changing.

Nowadays, more than half of us are living in metropolis, cities which became the symbol of the modern living. Thanks to Max Galka, a data cruncher, we can see from close the history of urbanization on interactive map from 3,700BCE to 2,000CE.

A fact worth mentioning here is that the urbanization starts from the Sumatran civilizations spawns the city of Eridu. Over the millennials after many cities were born in the Middle East a slowly started spreading across other continents.

In the history of urbanization are also known different categorization of what make an urban community to get the name city. In the ancient period (3,500BCE to 1,000BCE) 10,000 inhabitants’ defined one city, after in the classical period (1,000BCE to 1,000CE) the cities were defined by 100,000 inhabitant, so today in the modern period (1,000CE to present) over 1,000,000 inhabitants define the cities.

The history of urbanization is well known to the architects and the archeologist today, who have studied thoroughly with unique marks specific for each period. This time we won’t go into details and what makes each period unique. What intrigued us the most is the period of industrialization from 1850CE to 1900CE where the urbanization is actively spreading, we mean many cities are raised for that purpose.

As we said on the beginning, it’s an interesting phenomena and very debated. We suggest you to take a look on the video and see who the human race progressed spreading over the ages.