Series preface Acknowledgements List of figures List of contributors   1. Introduction: Decolonising the Roman grid Sofia Greaves and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill   Part I. City planning and Ideals of the city 2. Greek colonies and ideals of equality Irad Malkin 3. Ancient ideals and modern interpretations Andrew Wallace-Hadrill 4. Urban ideals in the medieval world: spatial order, ruling the realm and the design of towns under Edward I Keith Lilley 5. The making of men and cities: Francesc Eiximenis and urban development Sam Ottewill-Soulsby 6. Ancient cities in new worlds: neo-Latin views and Classical ideals in the sixteenth century Javier Martínez-Jiménez and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby 7. Ideals of the city in the early Islamic foundation stories of Kufa and Baghdad Edward Zychowicz-Coghill 8. The grid enframed: mapping the enframings of the American Grid Reuben Rose-Redwood   Part 2. Roman colonization and urban experimentation 9. The practice of urban settlement in Emilia Romagna: between spontaneous development, master-planning and post-antique adaptation Alessia Morigi 10. The long-term aspects of urban foundation in the cities of Africa Proconsularis Andrew Dufton 11. Late antique new cities Efthymios Rizos 12. Foundational grids and urban communities in the Iberian Peninsula in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Javier Martínez Jiménez 13. Town planning from Falerii to Isurium: understanding and enhancing the archaeological evidence Martin Millett   Part 3. The impact of the Roman urban model 14. From Potentia to Porto Recanati: the Roman coastal colony and its modern legacy Frank Vermeulen 15. New towns of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries and the grid plan Wim Boerefijn 16. Re-imagining the grid in the nineteenth century: to be, or not to be Rome Sofia Greaves 17. Searching for Rome: French colonial archaeology and urban planning in Morocco Said Ennahid 18. Planning the colonial capital: Khartoum and New Delhi Robin Cormack 19. Roma rediviva: the uses of Roman heritage in Fascist-era urbanism Aristotle Kallis 20. Urban planning and ideology: the Fascist layer on Rome’s city centre and the EUR district Flaminia Bartolini