Changing City Spaces: New Challenges to Cultural Policy in Europe

PROJECT ENDED. Duration: 2002-2005
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This project is centrally concerned with questions of urban culture and policy in the European space, using the metropolitan city focus to address broader questions of socio-cultural diversity, interaction and citizenship.

It is funded by the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme and coordinated by the University of Southampton. The project examines a range of cultural institutions, practices, events, strategies and policies in these diverse urban environments, with particular reference to the need to articulate valid and workable principles of multicultural practice and policy, and to oppose xenophobia and racism. The research considers contemporary developments and issues in seven capital cities - Rome, London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Ljubljana and Belgrade - selected to bring out the complex dynamics and directions of change in European society and culture in the 21st century.

BO STRÅTH, Professor of History and joint chair with the History and Civilisation Department, and ANNA TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, Research Fellow at the RSCAS, coordinate this project.