CONTENTS: Prologue The premise Aim and Method of study Structuring the study Part 1. Orders of Formation: the city Plates.1a Construct: Origins and Growth. Ahmedabad 1.1 Construction of the city 1.1a Origins 1.1b Structuring Principles 1.2 Making the Fortwall 1.2a Origins 1.2b Making of the Fort wall 1.2c Fort wall in history 1.3 Establishing Relationships: Artefacts and the city 1.3a Identifying Artefacts 1.3b Relevance of the Fort wall 1.4 Study Areas Part 2. Orders of change: the evolving edge 2.1 Order of Form 2.1a Levels and control 2.1b Identifying Levels 2.1c Disappearance of levels 2.2 Order of Place 2.2a Territory and control 2.2b Shifting territories 2.3 Case studies Plates. Orders of change: Study areas. Fort wall. Ahmedabad 2.3a Ram Bari to Ganesh Bari 2.3b Raikhad to Khanjahan Gate 2.3c Raipur to Panchkuva Gate 2.3d Premabhai to Dariapur Gate 2.3e Shahpur to Khanpur Gate Part 3. Orders of Understanding 3.1 Pattern 3.1a Fort wall and Street pattern 3.1b Fort wall and Growth pattern 3.2 System 3.2a System of Organization 3.2b System of Roads 3.2c Pol System 3.3 Type 3.3a Variation of Type 3.3b Urban Typology Part 4. Polyphony of themes. a third order Case studies Plates. a third order: spaces along the Fort wall. Ahmedabad Epilogue Appendix Credits