Acknowledgements, The Contributors, Introduction: What Is a Good City? Simon Goldhill, PART I ENGAGEMENT AND SPACE Chapter 1 The Public Realm Richard Sennett, Chapter 2 On Urban Failure Ash Amin, Chapter 3 On the Possibility of Urban Citizenship: Inclusive Identitities, Exclusive Spaces Nezar AlSayyad and Sujin Eom, PART II INFRASTRUCTURE AND AFFECT Chapter 4 Urban Atmospheres Matthew Gandy, Chapter 5 Atmospheric Urban Geopolitics Sara Fregonese, Chapter 6 Becoming a Crowd: Multiple Narratives, Identities and Ambiguities: People's Places in the Near East/Levant: Tahrir Square, Cairo, Taksim Square, Istanbul, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv Mike Turner and Yonka ErkanPART III CONFLICT AND STRUCTURE Chapter 7 The Conditions of Urbicide Wendy Pullan, Chapter 8 Sovereignty and the Urban Question: Exploring the Material Foundations for Imagined Communities of Allegiance in Conflict Cities Diane E. Davis, Chapter 9 Precariousness and Protest: Negotiating Urban Refuge in Cairo and Tel Aviv Irit KatzPART IV CURATING THE CITY Chapter 10 The Levantine Age: Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism in the Eastern Mediterranean Nasser Rabbat Chapter 11 Excavating Urban Imaginaries in Tehran Somaiyeh Falahat, Chapter 12 A Spectral Sumud: Jaffa in Kamal Aljafari's Port of Memory Mezna Qato and Sadia Shirazi, Index