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. Jens Martin Gurr, born in 1974, is a professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is cofounder and speaker 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. Barbara Buchenau, born in 1968, is a professor of North American studies at 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)(2019)(2020)(2021)(2022). Her AcknowledgementsThe ideas for this field guide took shape in discussions with several distinctive academic communities which helped us to clarify the specific need for a concise, hands-on manual for using narrative and storytelling in urban planning. First of all, we would like to thank the research group "Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions" funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2018-2023) -it has been a pleasure to work with Ju-

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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. Jens Martin Gurr, born in 1974, is a professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is cofounder and speaker 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. Barbara Buchenau, born in 1968, is a professor of North American studies at 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)(2019)(2020)(2021)(2022). Her research is dedicated to the powerful alignments between literature and the land across the centuries.