The evalution and development of human settlement through the sand of time
First human settlement was developed on the basis of satisfying the basic needs for food, water, and security. Man realized the necessity of being united for their mutual conveniences. These necessities gave rise to different human settlements. Gradually with the sand of time those small human settlement groups grew in complexity with regard to different human aspects and started utilizing the available natural resources and thus gave rise to the present day society. However the initial human settlement groups flourished spontaneously with the full support of the nature. Gradually with the advancement of human civilization they became inclined to value their secondary interests. They started paying interest to their comfort, leisure, financial security, power etc. and tried to mould those settlements on the basis of those secondary needs. Thus the concept of urban civilization was introduced. These settlements were developed artificially for and by the humans and nature’s supportive roles in those societies were often absent. Initially the population of those units was less and the conflicts with the nature were not much prominent. Gradually they tried to value all their needs as well as the comfort that could be attained in the cost of destroying different elements of nature. As the society attains a high enough scientific and technological level a host of complexities emerges in the relation between society and the nature mostly created by man. The urban areas became the epicenter of human advancement and the population increased rapidly in those areas. Initially nature was regarded as an inexhaustible treasure house and it was thought that nature’s riches could be exploited without giving thought to the problem of how they could and should be extracted and utilizes. The indiscriminating destruction of the natural resources thus did not give rise to any undesirable situation due to very less population in the urban areas. As the population started increasing the problem attained a global universal character in the case of developing countries with a high rate of population growth. When modernization and industrialization took place more people crowded to the urban areas from the rural units for the quest of better living. The population pressure became enormous on those areas and as the supportive role of nature was absent due to indiscriminating destruction of natural resources the situation started deterioting day to day. The difference between the social and personal lifestyle of the peoples of rural and urban areas became more prominent. The rural peoples flourished naturally under the biological diversity of the world, which results the cultural diversity and reflected directly on the lifestyle of the people. On the other hand the urban people developed directly under the influence of science, which was derived directly from the experience of interaction with nature. Though this development was not in natural way the previous lifestyle of the peoples, who came from the rural areas, influenced largely on the urban lifestyle.
