ABSTRACT
Civilization is any advanced stage of social development – the betterment in human condition that can result from large-scale collaboration. The word civilization is derived from the Latin civitas (a city) and civis (a citizen). In Rome, the city offices were the munia, and municeps was a citizen with privilege. The privileges of citizens have to be adapted, shared or relinquished, especially where there is a need to correct the urban/rural economic imbalance – explained at the end of the last chapter – or to accommodate the continuing influx into cities of people from rural areas or poorer countries.
