Introduction -- Archaeology and the study of the Greek city -- The early polis as city and state -- Modelling settlement structures in Ancient Greece: new approaches to the polis -- Surveys, cities and synoecism -- Pride and prejudice, sense and subsistence: exchange and society in the Greek city -- Settlement, city and elite in Samnium and Lycia -- Roman towns and their territories: an archaeological perspective -- Towns and territories in Southern Etruria -- City, territory and taxation -- Elites and trade in the Roman town.