I’ve been on a bit of a human history journey here lately, basically just jumping around various dates and eras to see what we know about the people of the time.
What occurs to me and what I haven’t come across yet, is how do towns and cities even get started? If I have come across that, I didn’t rightly understand what I was reading.
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A few different reasons. Good farmland will attract people so they will move to an area. Then support infrastructure will come in around them. Other resources, like mines will similarly attract people and support businesses/people will move to the area. Major transportation routes are a key part of this and amenities will be built, at varying distances between major stops for travelers, generally at least a day apart from other stops. Ports will attract people because of the ships coming in and the trade goods they bring in. After trains became a thing people started moving to areas close to train tracks in order to use those for transporting the goods they produce.
Essentially it starts out as an area people move to for some resource or another and then other infrastructure comes in. And it just keeps expanding from there.
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