This volume presents the results of the international IP Erasmus workshop on ‘The landscape of archaeology and the contemporary city’ which investigated the relation between the contemporary city and the archaeological landscape. This is a crucial issue converning the mutual relationship between archaeological sites located within cities such as in the case of Siracusa, which embodies a palinpsest of Greek origin. Three different European Schools of Architecture have been involved in urban areas with diverse issues: the Siracusa School of Architecture (Catania University), ETSAM of the University of Madrid and the Munich Hochschule. Each School has developed very vital proposal also rapresenting a sort of reader-friendly ‘handbook’ of projects.