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Cities are increasingly key elements within global economic and cultural relations, as they seek to establish corporate identities, compete for tourist trade, and for the location of multinational headquarters and prestigious sporting events. The question of how to understand urban political and economic landscapes and the emerging forms of urban culture is perhaps the most pressing issue for the new Millennium. The focus for the research and teaching being conducted at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College aims to meet this challenge. Since 1994 CUCR has emerged as a national and international leader in theoretically informed and socially relevant research on urban and community life. Our aspiration is to combine a commitment to social theory with sensitive and rigorous empirical research and to address both popular, academic and policy and political audiences. |