1. 3. Antecedent: the Greek city

2. The Greek Polis
City as state. The idea of polis. The different ideas of citizenship.
The development of an urban world. V-IV centuries BCE: about 60 per cent of the population of the Greek world must have lived in cities.
Urban locations. The characteristics of the sites. Sparta, Athens, Corinth. The colonies.

3. Greek cities. The main centres

6. Urban morphologies
The absence of planning in continental Greece. The regular division of the land in the colonies.
The examples of Mileto and Turi. The role of Ippodamus.
Social values and urban form. Order, justice and equality.
Private and public spaces. Civic and sacred spaces.

9. Athens The city without a palace. The agora.
Market places, tribunals, theatres. The relationship with the rural territories.
The Acropolis. The sacred spaces.
The Panathenaia. The role of rituals and the civic identity.

12. Urban development in hellenistic times
The end of the Greek polis. Alexander and the foundation of new cities.
Alexandria as the leader of urban life in the Western World. The capital of a kingdom.
The urban structure. Grid pattern, wall, monumental architecture.
The lighthouse and the largest library in the world.