From the Book - First U.S. edition.
Part one: Gods, heroes and monsters
Make a name for yourself!: the Tower of Babel, Iraq
Modernism's labyrinth: The palace of King Minos, Knossos, Greece
The first war memorial: The citadel of Mycenae, the plain of Argos, Greece
The Sun City also rises: Akhetaten, Amarna, Egypt
Part two: On the unhappiness of empires
The rise, decline and fall of the cow pasture: The forum, Rome
The library of Babel: the library of Alexandria, Egypt
Anarchy's theatre: the Hippodrome of Constantinople
The carpet of the world: Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba, Spain
Part three: The King is dead, long live the King
London was, but is no more: Old St Paul's Cathedral, London
Journey to the tent at the center of the world: Karakorum, Orkhon Valley, Mongolia
The house of diamonds: the Fortress of Golconda, Hyderabad, India
Liberté for sale: the Bastille, Paris
Virtual city: Vilcabamba, Espiritu Pampa, Peru
Part four: You say utopia, I say dystopia
Little brother's big brother house: the St Petersburg Panopticon, Okhta, Russia
No-man's city: Kowloon Walled City, Kowloon, Hong Kong
The day the architecture died: Pruitt-Igoe, St Louis, Missouri
The mirrorwall: the Berlin Wall, Berlin, East and West Germany
No day shall erase you from the memory of time: the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, New York City
The deleted city: GeoCities, the World Wide Web
Epilogue. Let the past meet the future: Palmyra, Tadmor, Syria.
