"Urban Space and Representation", the first of two colloquia to be hosted by the 3Cities project contributors was held in Nottingham on Saturday 16th May 1998. Click on the links below to read the Conference transcripts. We and the speakers welcome feedback, relevant comments will be published on this site and become part of the ongoing discussion below.
Conference Transcripts:
David Nye (Odense)
‘The Technological Sublime in the American City 1870-1931’
Eric Sandeen (Wyoming)
‘Signs of the Times: Preparing for the Millennium in Times
Square’
Rachel Bowlby (Oxford)
‘The Last Shopper’
Peter Brooker (Nene)
‘A Novelist in the Era of Higher Capitalism: Iain Sinclair
and the Post-modern East End’
Iain Borden (UCL)
‘A Performative Critique of the American City: The Urban
Practice of Skateboarding 1958-1998’
Liam Kennedy (Birmingham)
'Paranoid Spatiality: Postmodern Urbanism and American Film'
Further Papers:-
Douglas Tallack (Nottingham)
'Waiting, Waiting: The Hotel Lobby'
Sallie Westwood (Leicester)
Imagining America, Remembering Home: Latino/a Cultures in Urban
America
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