ABSTRACT
The conference Cities in the World was organised to raise awareness in Britain and beyond of the archaeological potential of cities over the last 500 years. Through bringing together papers on dynamic work in progress around the globe, the editors hoped especially to raise the profile in Britain and Europe of the archaeology of the recent urban past. Conferences on urban archaeology in Britain can be traced back across the last five decades. But the 2002 conference Cities in the World was the first to look at urban archaeology on the global scale. It is to be hoped that the work set out in this volume will reach a global audience.
