Narrative in Urban Planning: A Practical Field Guide

Lieven Ameel; Jens Martin Gurr; Barbara Buchenau

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Narrative in Urban Planning

A Practical Field Guide

Lieven Ameel , Jens Martin Gurr and Barbara Buchenau
Funded by: VolkswagenStiftung

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839466179

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About this book

What do planners need to know in order to use narrative approaches responsibly in their practice? This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of »narrative in planning«. What makes narratives coherent, probable, persuasive, even necessary - but also potentially harmful, manipulative and divisive? How can narratives help to build more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive communities? The contributors are literary scholars who have sound practical experience in planning practice, training planning scholars and practitioners or advising municipalities on how to harness the power of stories in urban development.

Author / Editor information

Lieven Ameel, born in 1978, is a senior lecturer in comparative literature at University of Tampere, Finland. He is co-founder and current president of the Association for Literary Urban Studies. In his research, he works on urban futures across textual genres, narrated experiences of space, and rhetorical structures in urban planning, among others.
Barbara Buchenau, born in 1968, is a professor of North American studies at the Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, where she is heading the research group »Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions«, nicknamed City Scripts, funded by the VolkswagenFoundation, at the Universitätsallianz Ruhr (2018-2022). Her research is dedicated to the powerful alignments between literature and the land across the centuries.
Jens Martin Gurr, born in 1974, is a professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the Universität Duisburg-Essen. He was co-founder of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the Universitätsallianz Ruhr (KoMet). His research areas include literary urban studies, theories and methods of urban and metropolitan research, model theory, literature and climate change as well as British literature of the 17th to the 21st centuries and contemporary US fiction.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
Sources Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	13
Ambiguity Open Access Download PDF	17
Closure Open Access Download PDF	21
Emplotment Open Access Download PDF	27
Future Narratives Open Access Download PDF	33
Genre Open Access Download PDF	39
Metaphor Open Access Download PDF	45
Model Open Access Download PDF	51
Narrative Open Access Download PDF	57
Narrativity Open Access Download PDF	63
Palimpsest Open Access Download PDF	69
Path-dependency Open Access Download PDF	73
Placemaking Open Access Download PDF	79
Polyphony Open Access Download PDF	85
Rhythm & Repetition Open Access Download PDF	91
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Scripts Open Access Download PDF	101
Travelling Models Open Access Download PDF	107
Utopia Open Access Download PDF	113
Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	119
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 146
Keywords: Planning; Storytelling; Story Turn; Narrative Turn; City; Literature; Urban Studies; Cultural Geography; Urban Planning; Literary Studies; Sociology

eBook

Published: March 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839466179