Dedicated to Lombardy and its capital, Milan, this book offers an in-depth profile of the city seen through its history and development, statistical data, geography, communication networks, and through its varied literary and visual culture. The book covers every type of territorial documentation, with high-definition photographic surveys, medieval town plans, and the satellite photographs of the city taken in 198, together with current street maps and blueprints of plans scheduled or already in progress. CONTENTS: Foreword. Guide and key to figures, language and cartography. The city and territory under the Romans. Dialogue with Mario Mirabello Roberti. Convents, monasteries, abbeys, granges, and villas. The castle. Milan in the thirteenth century as portrayed by Bonvesin de la Riva. Roads and highways. City and territory: road building in the Milan area in the fourteenth century. Seas, rivers, canals. Villas & farmsteads. Maps 1. Horse-cart-carriage. City and territory: cartographic representation from the Renaissance thru to Enlightenment. Dialogue with Aurora Scotti. Land registers and property records. Cheese/cheesemaking, meadows/forage/livestock, city/country, canals/dairies. Man's hand in the landscape. Railways and airways. City and territory: building the transport network. Dialogue with Giuseppe Longhi. City and town planning. Voluntary geography/spontaneous geography. Monuments and types of urban landscape in industrial cities. Trams, elevated railways, subways. Quality in years of quantity. City and territory: metropolises old and new. Dialogue with Giulio Redaelli. Automobiles, buses and trolleybuses. Cartography 2. Afterword by Claudio Dini. Indexes.