From: Philip Ethington <philipje@usc.edu>

Urban Icons Special Issue and Multimedia Companion

Cambridge University Press are delighted to announce the publication of the second “Multimedia Companion” in a programme to promote the publication of multimedia websites that elaborate the print articles published in Urban History. These refereed, Multimedia Companions are fully linked and cross-referenced to the print versions.

The latest special issue of Urban History, “Urban Icons,” edited by Philip Ethington and Vanessa Schwartz, makes an original intervention in the new field of Urban Visual History. The essays identify a critical, visual element in the construction of urban experience and identities. The essays consider urban icons and iconicity in the ancient, early modern, and modern eras, and in cities as diverse as Rome, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Venice, Berlin, Mexico City and Paris. Appearing simultaneously is a special multi-media companion, which recasts the entire print issue as a website, available at www.journals.cambridge.org/urbanicons As users navigate their way around “Icon City” they experience the arguments of the essays drawn by the editors as a visual and non-linear experience. The website interface is a re-presentation of the research results concerning the definitions and histories of urban icons; it offers the essays hyperlinked to each other by theme and argument; it features a media gallery of images associated with the essays that can be studied both with and apart from the texts of the essays.

For further information visit the journal’s homepage at: www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_UHY or email uhy@cambridge.org

Philip J. Ethington
Professor of History and Political Science
North American Editor, Urban History
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