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This article analyses the political, economic and social contexts of Liverpool's successful bid to become European … Capital of Culture, 2008. It highlights the juxtaposition in the Liverpool 2008 process of discourses of urban … Liverpool as 'The World in One City' and the threat that the emphasis on culture as economic development poses to 'alternative …