Uruk
In the multi-hued palette of civic organization, cities are the primary colors. Urban spaces are where civilization begins and where, ultimately, all civilizational challenges must be resolved. At once the smallest unit of governance, cities are also the largest human-made creations. Against this backdrop, we discuss this ethos of cities here in “Uruk,” a space named for the world’s very first city, founded some 6,000 years ago in what is today’s Iraq.