Introduction: The Mediterranean, and the Port Cities in Modern Times
Overture
Urban Planning in a Mediterranean Port City: The contested nature of urban redevelopment in the el Raval neighborhood in Barcelona
PART I A Mediterranean Tour d'horizon with the Port City Articles as the Ports of Call
Alexandria: A Glorious Past, Troubled Present and a Promising Future
Beirut
Forever on a Tightrope: The Search for a Fragile Modernity in Travelogues, Memoirs, and Archives
The Character of Mersin as an Eastern Mediterranean Port City
Izmir, the Port City That Will Follow You No Matter Where You Go
Intermezzo: A View from the Bridge of Volos Collapsing into Infinity
Volos in the Network of Mediterranean Cities: Comparative Mapping of the City's Spatial Evolution through the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
PART II Fragments of Connectivity
Transnational Trajectories: From Chios to London through Alexandria, A Family Story
City, Fathers, and Sons: Life Trajectories of Salonican Sabbatians in the Nineteenth Century
Ex-Changing Houses in Rethymno after the Treaty of Lausanne.