The continuous change of urban spaces, the evolution of fictional images of US American cities, and the effects of these images and stories on urban transformation were the central research questions of the “Urban Transformations” project conducted by the Ruhr Center of American Studies. This Center facilitates collaboration between American Studies scholars from the universities in Bochum, Dortmund and Duisburg-Essen. Rubin, Bochum’s science magazine, describes the results of the project, which are collected in a volume published by Transcript in Bielefeld.
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