Studying ancient (Greek and Roman) urbanism : research context, commonalities, and specificities / Arjan Zuiderhoek -- Early Greek urbanism / John Bintliff -- Early Roman urbanism in its Italian context / Marleen K. Termeer -- City foundations and urbanism in the Hellenistic world / Gary Reger -- Urban patterns in the Early Roman Empire, 27 BCE-250 CE / Luuk de Ligt -- Urban planning and development / Miko Flohr -- Agoras and forums / Christopher P. Dickenson -- Spectacle buildings and baths / Sadi Maréchal -- Urban housing in the ancient Mediterranean / Miko Flohr -- Traffic, movement, and the urban streetscape / Eric Poehler -- Greco-Roman urban water infrastructure / Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow -- Urban margins in Greco-Roman cities / Saskia Stevens -- Politics and political institutions in Archaic and Classical Greek cities / Matthew Simonton -- Political institutions in Hellenistic and Roman-era Greek cities / Arjan Zuiderhoek -- Politics and political institutions in Roman cities in Italy and the West / Christopher J. Dart -- Kings, governors, and emperors : Greek cities' interactions with powerful outsiders during the Hellenistic and Roman periods / Sviatoslav Dmitriev -- Cities and socioecological systems in the ancient world / Stef Boogers, Bas Beaujean, and Jeroen Poblome -- City and country in the Greek world / Edward M. Harris and David M. Lewis -- City and country in the Roman world / Tymon de Haas -- Greek urban social structures / Kostas Vlassopoulos -- Urban social structures in the Roman world / Emily Hemelrijk and Miko Flohr -- Civic cults in Classical Athens / J.Z. van Rookhuijzen -- Urban religion in Roman cities / Jörg Rüpke -- Fighting poleis : Greek cities at war / Roel Konijnendijk -- War and the city in the Roman world / Paul Erdkamp -- The (utopian) city in Greek political thought / Robert Ballingall -- Cicero's ideal city / Dean Hammer -- Representations of the city in Greek and Roman literature / Christiaan Caspers -- The visual imagination and representation of the ancient city / Annette Haug -- Late Roman cities in the West / Douglas Underwood -- Greco-Roman cities in the Late Antique East / Ine Jacobs -- The afterlife of the ancient city / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.