#42: Primal City (Part 1): Why Urbanists Should Study Hunter Gatherers
Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking, Planning and Urban Design
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Hunter-Gathering - The End Quote
The lives of hunter-gatherers are not nearly as bad as we have been led to believe. They likely enjoy a higher quality of life, better health, and stronger social ties than most people in modern urbanized societies. Thomas Hobbes is the man who famously proclaimed that life before the state was solitary, poor, nasty, bruise-ish, and short. Christopher Ryan spends much of his book debunking the standard narrative around prehistory.
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