Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.118

c7.118

(In this connection it is no doubt significant that the later (19th century B.C.) town-plan of Ur, mostly laid out in orderly rectilinear fashion, incorporated devious and casual main streets, obvious survivals from an amorphous small-town beginning, just as in New York the ancient suburban Broadway trundles carelessly across the modern grid-plan.⁵² In other words, Ur evolved from 4th-millennium village to 3rd-millennium city, learning as it went; whereas the later foundation, Mohenjo-daro, came into being (as it seems) in full awareness of the evolved civic idea—an idea which it can only have received from an adult Mesopotamia.)