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Nick Bacon is co-editor, with Xiangming Chen, of Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities. Additionally, Bacon is currently the Research Associate in Urban Studies at the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College, a PhD candidate in Urban Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Lehman College, where he teaches courses in anthropology and urban studies. Bacon's current research focuses on the contemporary transformation of American cities, suburbs, and regions, especially in and around Hartford. ...more

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