China and its Cultural Policy Making

There is a lecture on Chinese cultural policy here http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-07/29/c_12387493_2.htm.

Global Cities and Cultural Policy

This http://transtexts.revues.org/index149.html article reviews the rise of Istanbul as a megacity with a regional and growing global importance and the place of its cultural policy in the process.

Cities as Places of Longing and Dumping Grounds

This article http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32718/1.html on the urban condition in the twenty-first century brings the melancholy of the urban change and its history into the open of literary and comparative reflection.