The old ocean, prehistory to AD 987
Slaughterhouse city, 1461-1669
New Rome and old Sodom, 1670-1799
Dream house, dream city, 1800-1850
Queen of the world, 1851-1899
Magnetic fields, 1900-1939
The capital of treason, 1940-1944
Society of the spectacle, 1945-2005.