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  2. History of cities - Wikipedia

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    [6] In his book City Economics, Brendan O'Flaherty asserts "Cities could persist—as they have for thousands of years—only if their advantages offset the disadvantages". [7] O'Flaherty illustrates two similar attracting advantages known as increasing returns to scale and economies of scale, which are concepts usually associated with ...

  3. History of urban planning - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1900s, as cars were introduced to city streets for the first time, residents became increasingly concerned with the number of pedestrians being injured by car traffic. The response, seen first in Radburn, New Jersey , was the Neighbourhood Unit-style development, which oriented houses toward a common public path instead of the street.

  4. National Council of Educational Research and Training

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    The textbooks are in color-print and are among the least expensive books in Indian book stores. [11] Textbooks created by private publishers are priced higher than those of NCERT. [ 11 ] According to a government policy decision in 2017, the NCERT will have the exclusive task of publishing central textbooks from 2018, and the role of CBSE will ...

  5. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    In the Class 7 textbook topic titled “Our Pasts-2”, pages 48 and 49 have been excluded. These pages mentioned “Mughal Emperors: Major campaigns and events.” The deletions also affected Biology and Chemistry textbooks as the theory of evolution and the periodic table were also purged from class 10 NCERT textbooks. [40] [41]

  6. List of Indus Valley Civilisation sites - Wikipedia

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    Karanpura near Bhadra city Hanumangarh district: Rajasthan: India: Skeleton of child, terracotta like pottery, bangles, seals similar to other Harappan sites [36] Khirasara: Kutch district: Gujarat: India: Ware House, Industrial area, gold, copper, semi-precious stone, shell objects, and weight hoards Kerala-no-dhoro or Padri Saurashtra ...

  7. Indus Valley Civilisation - Wikipedia

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    The cities of the ancient Indus had "social hierarchies, their writing system, their large planned cities and their long-distance trade [which] mark them to archaeologists as a full-fledged 'civilisation.'" [60] The mature phase of the Harappan civilisation lasted from c. 2600 –1900 BCE. With the inclusion of the predecessor and successor ...

  8. Kalibangan - Wikipedia

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    Amlānand Ghosh (Ex. Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, or ASI) was the first person to recognise this site as Harappan and marked it out for excavations. [7] Under the leadership of B. B. Lal (then Director General, ASI), Balkrishna (B.K.) Thapar , M. D. Khare, K. M. Shrivastava and S. P. Jain carried out excavations for 9 years ...

  9. History of Addis Ababa - Wikipedia

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    A DNA studies shows from 1,000 people that humans began migrating from Addis Ababa vicinity around the globe for 100,000 years. [1] [better source needed] Other studies confirmed that Africans have more diverse gene than other continents, but new research indicated genetic diversity declination steadily happens while ancestors travelled to Addis Ababa, which roughly a site of exiting "out of ...