The quality of life and where do we go from here?. The foundation: Akhetaten, ‘Horizon of the Aten’. The founder: Akhenaten, ‘the heretic king’. The state sector: its power and its failings. The information society and the illusions of pageantry. Planning at its height: the Middle Kingdom town of Kahun. Early town layouts and the ‘village horizon’. Management and labour (and did slaves build the pyramids?). Foundations of ideology (3): architecture as political statement. Foundations of ideology (2): the containment of unrule. Foundations of ideology (1): local tradition. The formation of the state: a model for early Egypt. Seen through the lens of knowledge: theories of everything.
