Preface, 1995 -- Preface to the First Edition -- Contents -- Introduction: Urbanization in Perspective -- PART I. THE PREINDUSTRIAL AGE: ELEVENTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURIES -- 1. The Structures and Functions of Medieval Towns -- 2. Systems of Early Cities -- 3. The Demography of Preindustrial Cities -- PART II. A PROTOINDUSTRIAL AGE: FOURTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES -- 4. Cities in the Early Modern European Economy -- 5. Beyond Baroque Urbanism -- PART III. THE INDUSTRIAL AGE: EIGHTEENTH TO TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- 6. Industrialization and the Cities -- 7. Urban Growth and Urban Systems -- 8. The Human Consequences of Industrial Urbanization -- 9. The Evolution and Control of Urban Space -- 10. Europe's Cities in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix A. A Cyclical Model of an Economy -- Appendix B. Size Distributions and the Rank-Size Rule -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.