ABSTRACT
The search for sustainable urban form and sustainable transport systems has its origins all the way back to the earliest settlements. ‘Proto-urbanisation’, the earliest form of development, was found at sites such as Jericho, Abu Hureya, Mureybat and Çatal Hüyük more than 10,000 years ago. And true city form is thought to have developed on the alluvial plains of the Tigris and Euphrates, in the area known as Sumeria, sometime between 4000 and 3000 BC (see Soja, 2000).
