Editing Built environment (section)

=== Pre–industrial Revolution ===
Agriculture, the cultivation of soil to grow crops and animals to provide food as well as products, was first developed about 12,000 years ago.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Development of Agriculture {{!}} National Geographic Society |url=https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/development-agriculture |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=education.nationalgeographic.org}}</ref> This switch, also called the [[Neolithic Revolution]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neolithic Revolution |url=https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/neolithic-revolution |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref> was the beginning of favoring permanent settlements and altering the land to grow crops and farm animals. This can be thought of as the start of the built environment, the first attempt to make permanent changes to the surrounding environment for human needs. The first appearance of cities was around 7500 BCE, dotted along where land was fertile and good for agricultural use.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |title=The History of Cities {{!}} National Geographic Society |url=https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/history-cities |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=education.nationalgeographic.org}}</ref> In these early communities, a priority was to ensure basic needs were being met. The built environment, while not as extensive as it is today, was beginning to be cultivated with the implementation of buildings, paths, farm land, domestication of animals and plants, etc. Over the next several thousand years, these smaller cities and villages grew into larger ones where trade, culture, education, and economics were driving factors.<ref name=":10" /> As cities began to grow, they needed to accommodate more people, as well as shifted from focusing on meeting survival needs to prioritizing comfort and desires – there are still many individuals today who do not have their basic needs met and this idea of a shift is within the framework of the evolution of society.<ref name=":9" /> This shift caused the built aspect of these cities to grow and expand to meet the growing population needs.