Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-604) and index
The emergence of the city / Alexandre Grandazzi -- Population size and social structure / Neville Morley -- 3. Disease and death / Walter Scheidel -- Slaves and freedmen / Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto -- Immigration and cosmopolitanization / Claudia Moatti -- Marriages, families, households / Beryl Rawson -- Pack-animals, pets, pests, and other non-human beings / Michael MacKinnon -- The urban topography of Rome / Elisha Dumser -- Housing and domestic architecture / Glenn R. Storey -- Regions and neighborhoods / J. Bert Lott -- Monumental Rome / Roy D. Miller -- (Sub)urban surroundings / Robert Witcher -- The Tiber and river transport / Steven L. Tuck -- Traffic and land transportation in and near Rome / Ray Laurence -- The food supply of the capital / Paul Erdkamp -- Counting bricks and stacking wood : providing the physical fabric / Shawn Graham -- Water supply, drainage and watermills / Christer Bruun -- Industries and services / Wim Broekaert and Arjan Zuiderhoek -- Labour and employment / Cameron Hawkins -- Professional associations / Jinyu Liu -- Sex and the city / Thomas A. J. McGinn -- Civic rituals and political spaces in Republican and Imperial Rome / Adam Ziolkowski -- Policing and security / Benjamin Kelly -- Riots / Gregory S. Aldrete -- 'Romans, play on!': city of the games / Nicholas Purcell -- The urban sacred landscape / Andreas Bendlin -- Structuring time : festivals, holidays and the calendar / Michele R. Salzman -- Cemeteries and catacombs / Leonard V. Rutgers -- What difference did Christianity make? / A. D. Lee -- The city in ruin : text, image, and imagination / Catharine Edwards -- Roma aeterna / Ingrid Rowland