CONTENTS
Introduction
The Morphology of the Times
Greek and Roman Urbanisation 12
Colonial town-planning as a strategy for empire building
1 Santa Cruz, Seville 28
An expanding labyrinth of Moorish urban clans in the late Middle Ages
2 Botanico, Lisbon 64
The 17th-century aristocrats flee the densely populated and dirty city
3 Capitale, Turin 94
Uaroque urban layout of a ducal and royal network in the 17th and 18th centuries
4 Esquilino, Rome 132
Expansion of civil society in the last quarter of the 19th century
5 Poblenou, Barcelona 158
A Catalan village wrapped up in the modern 19th-century Cerda grid
6 Quartiers Modernes, Pessac 184
Serial modern town-planning in a refracting colour scheme
7 Altstadt, Dresden 208
Extremes: 20th-century destruction and reconstruction of the past
8 Vredenburg, Utrecht 248
The bustle of present-day leisure and shopping in a historic city centre
Appendix 286