City Scripts

Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin

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“…There is as yet no substantial narratology of planning documents, though recent work by Lieven Ameel or Bart Keunen and Sofie Verraest and others point in this direction (cf. also Buchenau/ Gurr 2016. Such work has been able to highlight how productive analyses of planning texts informed by narratology, the theory of metaphors or rhetoric generally can be: Which dénouements, path dependencies, inclusions and exclusions are suggested or even imposed by the plot patterns associated with different genres or by established patterns of narrative sense-making?…”

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“…16 For this, cf. for instance Ameel , 2017Ameel , 2019Buchenau/ Gurr 2016Childs;Cohen;Eckstein/ Throgmorton;Filep/ Thompson-Fawcett/ Rae;Ivory;Kaplan;Keunen/ Verraest;Mandelbaum;Tewdwr-Jones; Procedural Knowledge, Self-Description and Persuasive Blueprint for the Future Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr Cities have been matched with minds, manners and traditions since the heydays of the Chicago School of urban sociology a century ago. Urban infrastructure, then, came alive as a cultural organism developing creative and destructive energies that cannot be contained by its material constraints.…”

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Charting Literary Urban Studies

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2020

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Charting Literary Urban StudiesGuided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts represent urban complexities -and how can they capture the uniqueness of a given city? How do literary texts simulate layers of urban memory -and how can they reinforce or help dissolve path dependencies in urban development? What role can literary studies play in interdisciplinary urban research? Are the blueprints or 'recipes' for urban development that most quickly travel around the globe -such as the 'creative city', the 'green city' or the 'smart city' -really always the ones that best solve a given problem? Or is the global spread of such travelling urban models not least a matter of their narrative packaging? In answering these key questions, this book also advances a literary studies contribution to the general theory of models, tracing a heuristic trajectory from the analysis of literary texts as representations of urban developments to an analysis of literary strategies in planning documents and other pragmatic, non-literary texts.

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confidence: 99%