Lure of the city -- Catalhoyuk : first experiment in urban living -- Jericho and its walls -- Uruk : city of Gilgamesh -- Mysterious Mohenjo-daro -- Kahun, company town in the desert -- Work and life at Deir el-Medina -- Amarna : revolutionary capital -- Knossos : palace, city, or temple? -- Akrotiri : Bronze Age Pompeii -- Mycenae, Tiryns, and the mask of Agamemnon -- Athens : civic buildings and civic identity -- Athenian domestic architecture -- Hippodamian planning : Miletus and Ephesus -- Olynthus : a classical Greek city preserved -- Wonder and diversity at Alexandria -- Pergamon : the new theatricality -- Good life in Rome -- Lives of the poor in Rome -- Ostia : middle-class harbor town -- Timgad : more Roman than Rome -- Karanis : on the fringes of the empire -- Constantinople : the last ancient city -- Lessons and legacies of ancient urban life.