From left, Xiangming Chen, dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) and Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology, and Nick Bacon ’10, PhD student in Urban Anthropology at the City University of New York and CUGS research associate, autograph copies of the book they co-edited, Confronting Urban Legacy, after a recent presentation at the Mark Twain Museum Center. The book explores the transformative relationship between globalization and urban transition in Hartford while including comparative chapters on other New England cities: Portland, Maine, along with Lawrence and Springfield, Massachusetts.  Bacon in particular used his research on East Hartford to demonstrate the importance of studying Hartford locally, regionally, and globally.  For more on the book, click here.