Inaugural Working Paper Series No. 1: Destination Culture: How Globalization makes all Cities Look the Same Sharon Zukin (C.U.N.Y.) szukin@bc.cuny.edu No. 2: The "Instant City" Coming of Age:: China's Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in Thirty Years Xiangming Chen & Tomas de'Medici '11 (Trinity College) xiangming.chen@trincoll.edu tomas.demedici@trincoll.edu No. 3: A Tale of Two (Asian) Cities: Dubai and Singapore - Before and After the Crisis Ahmed Kanna (Trinity College) ahmed.kanna@trincoll.edu No. 4: Social Accountability in Africa: Comparative Analysis of Participatory Budgeting in Harare and Johannesburg Tyanai Masiya (Trinity College) tyanai.masiya@trincoll.edu No. 5: "Margin of the Margins"in Brazil: Black Women Confront the Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion Keisha-Khan Y. Perry (Brown University) kyperry@brown.edu Vol. I. Spring 2009 Executive Editor: Dr. Xiangming Chen Managing Editor: Jason C. Percy                                                (c) 2009 The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College All Rights reserved

This Inaugural Working Paper Series, Vol. I., Nos. 1-5 (Spring 2009) is published by The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College (May 2009). Earlier versions of these papers were presented at the Conference “Rethinking Cities and Communities,” sponsored by The Center for Urban and Global Studies, and held at Trinity College on November 14-15, 2008.


We would like to thank Dr. Ahmed Kanna for helpful comments on earlier drafts.


We also thank Jason C. Percy, Managing Editor, for his skilled work with each of the papers in this Series.