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City Museum and City Development explores the concept of City Museums and the new directions that these institutions are headed towards. Summary Of The Book City Museums have long been repositories of a city’s culture, tradition, and history. These museums reflect the pride of its citizens in their past achievements. In recent years, however, the purpose of these institutions have been redefined. It is now considered important that City Museums should reflect the city’s current status and also project the future trends. With more people living in cities around the world than ever before, City Museums are gaining increasing importance. Cities are now getting more cosmopolitan than ever before, and according to experts, this aspect should be considered by the city museums. City Museum and City Development presents information about the city museums from different continents and discusses their functions. The book brings together opinions from several experts in the field about the future trends that City Museums are likely to follow. They discuss their functions not just as an archive of past achievements, but as a reflection of the present, and as a workshop for the future development of the cities that they represent. Some of the chapters (in no particular order) included in City Museum and City Development are:     * Cities and Museums About Them     * Museums of Cities and the Future of Cities     * City Museums and the Geopolitics of Globalization     * Thinking the Present Historically at the Museum of Sydney     * Museums, Cities, and Historical Representation     * Defining a Research Agenda for City Museums in a Peripheralizing World     * The Prospect of a City Museum     * Taipei City Museum in the Making     * Museums and Urban Renewal in Towns     * Defining Attributes for the City Museum of Today About The Authors City Museums and City Development has contributions from many experts who have been working in the field for long. One of them is Ian Jones, who is the CAMOC Secretary (CAMOC - Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities). Others include Robert Macdonald of the Museum of New York and Darryl McIntyre of the Museum of London.