'… this volume will be useful for scholars from many sub-fields looking to situate their work in the city's own history. … But the value of the large-scale urban biography model is precisely to make us think about patterns in the city's life over time. This book achieves its aims admirably, and will be valuable for students and researchers alike.' Amy Russell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
1. A bend in the river; 2. A storybook beginning; 3. Ideological crossfire; 4. Big men on the campus; 5. Res publica restitute; 6. Memorials in motion: spectacle in the city; 7. The concrete style; 8. Remaking Rome's public core I; 9. Remaking Rome's public core II; 10. Continuity and crisis; 11. Rus in urbe: a garden city; 12. Administration, infrastructure, and disposal of the dead; 13. Mapping, zoning, and sequestration; 14. Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome; 15. Trophies and tituli: Christian infrastructure before Constantine; 16. Walls make Christians: from fourth to fifth century; 17. A tale of two Romes; 18. The Rome of Goths and Byzantines; 19. Christian foundations; 20. From Domus laterani to Romanum palatium; 21. The Leonine City: St Peter's and the Borgo; 22. Via Papalis, the Christian decumanus; 23. The urban theaters of imperium and SPQR; 24. Housing daily life; 25. Chaos in the fortified city; 26. The Tiber River; 27. Humanist Rome, absolutist Rome (1420–1527); 28. Planning Counter-Reformation Rome; 29. Processions and populations; 30. Magnificent palaces and rhetorical churches; 31. Neoclassical Rome; 32. Picturing Rome; 33. Revolution and Risorgimento; 34. Italian nationalism and romanità; 35. A city turned inside out.