Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Sociology - Habitation, Urban Sociology, grade: A, language: English, abstract: "Our property seems to me the most beautiful in the world. It is so close to Babylon that we enjoy all the advantages of the city, and yet when we come home we are away from the noise and dust". Written in cuneiform on a clay tablet, this letter to the King of Persia in 539 B.C. represents the first extant expression of the suburban...