The fabric of cities: aspects of urbanism, urban topography and society in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Urban Topography as a Reflection of Society? /Natalie N. May and Ulrike Steinert -- The Cost of Cosmogony: Ethical Reflections on Resource Extraction, Monumental Architecture and Urbanism in the Sumerian Literary Tradition /J. Cale Johnson -- Gates and Their Functions in Mesopotamia and Ancient Israel /Natalie N. May -- City Streets: Reflections on Urban Society in the Cuneiform Sources of the Second and First Millennium bce /Ulrike Steinert -- The Babylonian Cities: Investigating Urban Morphology Using Texts and Archaeology /Heather D. Baker -- From bābānu to bētānu, Looking for Spaces in Late Assyrian Palaces /David Kertai -- "Ich bin die Grenze der Agora." Zum kognitiven Stadtbild der Athener in klassischer Zeit /Jan Stenger -- Religiöse Topographie Roms: Der Aventin Innerhalb der Stadt und ausserhalb des Pomeriums /Darja Šterbenc Erker -- Index.

The Fabric of Cities offers a diversified collection of articles on ancient urbanism in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, focussing on the social dimension of urban spaces and cultural views of city life, by drawing extensively on textual and archaeological sources