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The Invention of Cities

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More than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Monica L. Smith, professor of anthropology at UCLA, joins host Krys Boyd to explain how the development of cities – from Mesopotamia to the present – is strongly linked to the prosperity of humankind as a whole. Her new book is called “Cities: The First 6,000 Years” (Viking).