City Sites, Multimedia Essays on New York and Chicago 1870s-1930s is a part of the 3Cities research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Board. It is based at the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham in the UK. The New York essays of City Sites, Multimedia Essays on New York and Chicago 1870s-1930s deal with subjects like Harlem as refuge and ghetto in modernist art and writing; Times Square as represented in New Year’s celebrations and modern ways of seeing revealed in images of the Flatiron Building.
Chicago essays cover the portrayal of African-American urban styles in the art of Archibald Motley, Jr.; ways the city has been represented as a gateway; how urban identities are constructed and experiences portrayed in the novel Sister Carrie. Essays include dozens of photographs and multimedia displays
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