possible to disband a city?

[fendis_khan]

If I find that a barbarian city is not in a useful spot, is there any way to disband it? Unfortunately, I did not choose to destroy it when I first captured it...

 

[MerakSpielman]

I haven't found a way to do this. The only way in previous versions of Civ was really a workaround - starve them to size 1 and buy a settler. An actual "disband" function would be nice, especially if it added the population of the city to your nearby cities.

 

[phatlip]

and now that cities don't lose pop when building a settler, thats hardly going to work.

and even uglier hack is to put your citizens onto science/culture - whatever.

starve the city to one, take your troops out - let it be conquered by barbarians, who will destroy it.

Very ugly, but once its gone you can build a better base.

Civ3 had a nice disband button and you even got a settler from it.