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[Doug Millison]

City Sites: an electronic book

http://www.citysites.org.uk

City Sites is an open access electronic book published by the
University of Birmingham Press, supported by the Arts and
Humanities Research Board, and the Universities of Birmingham
and Nottingham, UK.  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.  The book consists of ten essays by
leading scholars presenting multi-disciplinary study of the
iconography, spatial forms and visual and literary cultures of New
York and Chicago from 1870-1939.  City Sites also features
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), Dr Max Page (Yale),
Professor Eric Sandeen (Wyoming), Professor Douglas Tallack
(Nottingham), John Walsh (Nottingham).  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).

City Sites is part of the 3 Cities research project, funded by the
A.H.R.B. based at the University of Birmingham and the University
of Nottingham in the UK.