Bulletin No. 1, 2010

12  Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2010  Empirically and Creatively Urban Centre for Culture and Development W ith a name containing the two most often repeated words in Hong Kong these days, the Centre for Culture and Development certainly seems to have its finger on the city’s pulse. And its work shows that it does indeed. Housed in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the centre’s research falls mainly into three areas that are all highly relevant to contemporar y H o n g Ko n g : c u l t u r a l heritage, which looks at the preser vation of cultural heritage from a cultural studies perspective; culture and creative industries, which involves the mapping of Hong Kong’s creative industries and the conducting of studies on the city’s cultural policy; and culture-led city development which studies topics related to urban redevelopment, cultural districts and creative clusters, as part of a city marketing approach. The second and third areas give the traditional understanding of culture an economic dimension. ‘We add an empirical dimension to an integrated humanities approach in our projects, such as by borrowing