Who turned rome from a village of farmers into city

According to the Roman tradition Rome was founded by Romulus in 753 BC. He did not turn Rome from a village into a city. Originally Rome was not just a village. It was a collection of independent settlements around what were to become the Seven Hills of Rome (the Capitoline, Palatine Caelian, Esquiline, Viminal and Aventine Hills). Romulus first became the ruler of the Palatine Hill and then unified the other settlements under his rule, became the first king of Rome and laid the foundations of the Roman state. Therefore, he founded a city-state with a collection of villages, rather than a city as such. This was similar to Sparta, which was a city-state made up of several settlements, rather than a single urban centre. With population growth Rome developed into a fully urban entity later, probably in the early 6th century BC.