{"id":3195,"date":"2016-08-17T15:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2016-08-17T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T15:48:39","slug":"special-issue-of-urban-history-released-in-scalar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/special-issue-of-urban-history-released-in-scalar\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Issue of Urban History Released in Scalar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Urban History<\/em> has long supported the publication of online-only, multimedia works<\/a>. Since 2004 the journal, published by Cambridge University Press, has delivered a number of open-access, multimedia companions, both for special issues and for individual journal articles and in 2006 the journal released Urban Icons<\/a>, a groundbreaking interactive special issue focused on urban visual history.<\/p>\n

This week the journal once again demonstrated its commitment to born-digital scholarship, releasing a special issue, \u2018Urban Sights: Urban History and Visual Culture<\/a>,\u2019 guest edited by Matt Delmont<\/a> and authored entirely in Scalar. \u201cDrawing on photography, painting, film, television and other visual and textual evidence,\u201d Delmont summarized the special issue, \u201cthe essays explore how diverse visual forms not only shape metropolitan spaces, experiences and identities, but also shape the ways in which people imagine, remember and forget such spaces and events.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Putting the study of the visual at the center of urban history, these born-digital essays examine a wide range of visual assets and, in the case of Bridget Gilman\u2019s essay (see below), allow readers to explore interactive timelines and visualizations of Robert Bechtle\u2019s paintings. Delmont, in fact, worked closely with the Scalar team, as well as Urban History<\/em>\u2019s Multimedia Editor (2004-2015) and Scalar Co-PI, Phil Ethington, to see that each essay took the greatest advantage of the platform\u2019s affordances. Delmont writes:<\/p>\n

By presenting the special issue in Scalar, we hope to offer both new research on urban visual history and also new models for the visual and textual presentation of such research. In contrast to a traditional print issue, Scalar affords the opportunity to present a large number of images, including color images; present selected clips from films and television that are analyzed in the essays; and create visualizations to present evidence in more dynamic ways. The authors have used digital technology to expand and extend their historical analysis of and to bring this sustained engagement with the past to a wide audience through an open access online format.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Urban Sights<\/a> contains the following essays:<\/p>\n