Taxila, the ancient capital of eastern Punjab, was a city of importance and fame which linked strategic routes and passes around and far beyond the region. Taxila stands for the diverse phases in the growth of a city, stretching from the 2nd century B.C to 1st century A.D. on the Indus that was from time to time subjected to Persia, Greece and Central Asia. The importance of Taxila as a Vedic and Buddhist centre of learning from the 5th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D. augments its significance. Historically, Taxila lay at the crossroads of three major trade routes: the royal highway from Pāṭaliputra; the north-western route through Bactria, Kāpiśa, and Puṣkalāvatī (Peshawar); and the route from Kashmir and Central Asia, via Śrinigar, Mānsehrā, and the Haripur valley across the Khunjerab Pass to the Silk Road. Being geographically placed on a branch of the Silk Road, Taxila connected China to the West, and attained its glory between the 1st and 5th centuries. The development of Taxila as an urban centre is posited to be more of a continuous process as opposed to the earlier suggestions of a complete break and disruption by initial studies and excavations. The ruins of the settlement sites at Taxila are universally meaningful as they reveal the pattern of urban evolution with consistent evidences of an emerging complex society, planning and constructional expertise, in continuum through more than five centuries, Taxila is the only site of this unique importance in Asia. The concern of this paper will be to examine and highlight the continuous sequence of the urban features of the Taxila cities along with the adjacent elements which are not perceptibly different from each other, but which are extremely quite distinct and marked from each other. © 2020, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc.. All rights reserved.