The city: a world history

Origins and locations of early cities, 3500-500 BCE

Great cities, 500 BCE-300 CE

Decline and development, 300-1500

Capitals, culture, colonization, and revolution, 1500-1800

Urban growth and its consequences in an age of industrialization, 1800-1914

Colonial cities, 1800-1914

Destruction and reconstruction, 1914-1960

Urban decline and urban growth since 1950.