Table of Contents

1: Peter Clark: Introduction
Part I: Early Cities
2: Augusta McMahon: Mesopotamia
3: Robin Osborne and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill: Cities of the Ancient Mediterranean
4: David B. Mattingly and Kevin C.MacDonald: Africa
5: Cameron A. Petrie: South Asia
6: N. Steinhardt: China
7: David L. Stone: Economy
8: Luuk de Ligt: Population and Migration
9: Mario Liverani: Power and Citizenship
10: J.A. Baird: Religion and Ritual
11: Ray Laurence: Planning and Environment
Part II: Pre-Modern Cities
12: Marc Boone: Medieval Europe
13: B. Blondé and Ilja Van Damme: Early Modern Europe: 1500-1800
14: Dominique Valérian: Middle East: 7th-15th Centuries
15: Ebru Boyar: The Ottoman City
16: Hilde de Weerdt: China: 600-1300
17: William T. Rowe: China: 1300-1900
18: James McClain: Japan's Pre-modern Urbanism
19: Leonard Blussé: Port Cities of South East Asia: 1400-1800
20: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Latin America
21: Bas van Bavel, Maarten Bosker Eltjo Buringh, and Jan Luiten van Zanden: Economy
22: Anne Winter: Population and Migration: European and Chinese Experiences Compared
23: Wim Blockmans and Marjolein 't Hart: Power
24: Peter Burke: Culture: Representations
Part III: Modern and Contemporary Cities
25: Andrew Lees and Lynn Hollen Lees: Europe: 1800-2000
26: Alan Gilbert: Latin America
27: Carl Abbott: North America
28: Kristin Stapleton: China: 1900 to the Present
29: Paul Waley: Japan
30: Prashant Kidambi: South Asia
31: Howard Dick and Peter J. Rimmer: South East Asia and Australia
32: Mercedes Volait and Mohammad Al-Asad: Middle East
33: Bill Freund: Africa: 1000-2010
34: Ho-fung Hung and Shaohua Zhan: Industrialization and the City: East and West
35: Leo Lucassen: Population and Migration
36: Alan Gilbert: Poverty, Inequality, and Social Segregation
37: Martin V. Melosi: The Urban Environment
38: Marjatta Hietala and Peter Clark: Creative Cities
39: Hannu Salmi: Cinema and the City
40: Thomas R. Metcalf: Colonial Cities
41: Xiangming Chen and Henry Fitts: Contemporary Metropolitan Cities
42: Jussi S. Jauhiainen: Suburbs
43: Carola Hein: Port Cities
44: Penelope J. Corfield: Conclusion: Cities in Time

About the Author

Peter Clark was until recently Professor of European Urban History at the University of Helsinki. Educated at Oxford he was the first director (1985) of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester where he remains Visiting Professor. In 1989 he helped found the European Association for Urban History and he has published or edited over 20 books on urban, social, cultural and environmental history. In 2010 he received an honorary degree from Stockholm
University.

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