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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:02:18 -0400
From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: WWW: City Sites (Culture of New York & Chicago, 1870-1939)


fyi mapsters: this site might be useful for urban geography courses, etc.

I am forwarding it from H-Urban.

Alice Hudson
Map Division, NYPL

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Subject: WWW: City Sites (Culture of New York & Chicago, 1870-1939)
Author:  Ulf Zimmermann <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date:    07/31/2000 11:30 AM


Posted by Maria Balshaw <[log in to unmask]>

We would like to announce to colleagues the forthcoming publication of
City Sites: an electronic book.  City Sites is an inter- and
multi-disciplinary study of the iconography, spatial forms and visual
and literary cultures of New York and Chicago in the period 1870-1939.
City Sites is the result of collaborative research by scholars from
Europe and the USA and presents a pioneering approach to American
urbanism utilising new multimedia technologies.

City Sites is part of the 3 Cities research project, funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Board, based at the University of
Birmingham and the University of Nottingham in the UK.  The book is
edited by Dr Maria Balshaw and Dr Liam Kennedy (University of
Birmingham) and Dr Anna Notaro and Professor Douglas Tallack
(University of Nottingham) and will be published electronically by the
University of Birmingham Press, November 2000.

City Sites features ten essays on the urban cultures of New York and
Chicago, with extensive online resources, map pages, bibliography,
moving and still images and sound.  Essays are by Professor William
Boelhower (Padua), Dr Maria Balshaw (Birmingham), Dr Jude Davies
(Winchester), Dr Chris Gair (Birmingham), Dr Liam Kennedy
(Birmingham), Dr Anna Notaro (Nottingham), Professor Max Page
(Harvard), Professor Eric Sandeen (Wyoming), Professor Douglas Tallack
(Nottingham), John Walsh (Nottingham).

We would like to invite colleagues to preview City Sites at:

 http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites

Register your interest on the Preview site and we will notify you of
our electronic launch in November.

If you would like further information on City Sites or would like to
know more about the 3 Cities project please visit our project web
site at:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3Cities

or contact Dr Maria Balshaw, Department of American and
Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK at
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Dr Maria Balshaw
Research Fellow in American Literature/ 3 Cities Project
Dept. of American and Canadian Studies
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham ENGLAND
phone ++44 121 4143274
fax ++44 121 4146866

Visit our electronic book at http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites
Visit the 3 Cities web site at <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities/