. The city as a physical entity has intrigued people for many years including planners, administrators and more recently academics. In the introduction to his seminal book ‘The Culture of Cities’ (1938), Lewis Mumford describes a city as “the point of maximum concentration for the power and culture of a community.” Such concentrations of power and culture have existed, in one form or another for millennia where historically cities developed as centers of trade and commerce, usually with some form of organized administration.