Part I: Early cities. Mesopotamia / Augusta McMahon
Cities of the ancient Mediterranean / Robin Osborne and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Africa / David Mattingly and Kevin McDonald
South Asia / Cameron A. Petrie
China / N. Steinhardt
Economy / David L. Stone
Population and migration / Luuk de Ligt
Power and citizenship / Mario Liverani
Religion and ritual / J.A. Baird
Planning and environment / Raymond Laurence
Part II: Pre-modern cities. Medieval Europe / Marc Boone
Early modern Europe : 1500-1800 / Bruno Blondé and Ilja Van Damme
Middle East : 7th-15th centuries / Dominique Valérian
The Ottoman city : 1500-1800 / Ebru Boyar
China : 600-1300 / Hilde de Weerdt
China : 1300-1900 / William T. Rowe
Japan's premodern urbanism / James McClain
Port cities of South-East Asia : 1400-1800 / Leonard Blussé
Latin America / Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Economy / Bas van Bavel, Maarten Bosker, Eltjo Buringh, and Jan Luiten van Zanden
Population and migration : European and Chinese experiences compared / Anne Winter
Power / Wim Blockmans and Marjolein 't Hart
Culture : representations / Peter Burke
Part III: Modern and contemporary cities. Europe : 1800-2000 / Andrew Lees and Lynn Hollen Lees
Latin America / Alan Gilbert
North America / Carl Abbott
China : 1900 to the present / Kristin Stapleton
Japan / Paul Waley
South Asia / Prashant Kidambi
South East Asia and Australia / Howard Dick and Peter J. Rimmer
Middle East / Mercedes Volait and Mohammad al-Asad
Africa : 1000-2010 / Bill Freund
Industrialization and the city : East and West / Ho-fung Hung and Shaohua Zhan
Population and migration / Leo Lucassen
Poverty, inequality, and social segregation / Alan Gilbert
The urban environment / Martin V. Melosi
Creative cities / Marjatta Hietala and Peter Clark
Cinema and the city / Hannu Salmi
Colonial cities / Thomas R. Metcalf
Contemporary metropolitan cities / Xiangming Chen and Henry Fitts
Suburbs / Jussi S. Jauhiainen
Port cities / Carola Hein
Conclusion : cities in time / Penelope J. Corfield.