The SCRSJ is a collaboration between the department of urban studies at Glasgow University and the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research at Aberdeen University.

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The scruffy-looking urban studies professor at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.

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But some of the residents formed the Union of Tenants and Housing Applicants and worked with the Center of Housing and Urban Studies, a non-governmental organization.

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The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

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Joint Center for Urban Studies.

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Dr Michael Mak, from the University of Newcastle in Australia, studies how feng shui can be used in urban design and architecture from what he calls a scientific stand point.

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Before becoming an MP, Mr Wicks worked in the urban deprivation unit of the Home Office, as a lecturer and he was director of the Family Policy Studies Centre.

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