The work is arranged in eight chapters, glossary, bibliography, summary in Turkish, plate index, and plates. The first chapter deals with the Lycian residences in their urban planning construction; second chapter with reconstruction proposals for further residential cities in Lycia; third chapter with Kyaneai; fourth chapter with structural elements of planning (citadels, palaces, sanctuaries, agoras, dynastic necropoleis, aristocratic necropoleis, citizens necropoleis, fortifications, arsenals, water supply, street system, chora, art); fifth chapter deals with examples from Anatolia and eastern Near East comparable social structures; sixth chapter makes comparative analyses; seventh chapter with settlement hierarchy during Classical period in Lycia, and the eighth chapter deals with Limyra/Zemuri: the residential city of the Lycian King Perikle.