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City scripts : narratives of postindustrial urban futures / edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- Cities and towns--History.
- Cities and towns.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Urbanization--Social aspects--United States.
- Urbanization.
- Urbanization--Social aspects--Germany.
- Urbanization--Social aspects.
- Germany.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- xi, 240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Analyzes the past, present, and future of postindustrial cities in Germany and the US through assemblages of narrative, media, performance, and urban matter"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: City scripts in urban literary and cultural studies / Maria Sulimma, Barbara Buchenau, and Jens Martin Gurr
- Black Lives Matter graffiti and creative forms of dissent : two sites of counterscripting in Denver, Colorado / Florian Deckers and Renee M. Moreno
- Walking down Woodward : (re)telling a city's stories through urban figures / Juliane Borosch and Barbara Buchenau
- Tiny architecture and narrative : scripting minimal urban living spaces / Katharina Wood and Randi Gunzenhäuser
- Narrative path dependencies in sustainable and inclusive urban planning : Portland's Albina neighborhoods / Elisabeth Haefs and Jens Martin Gurr
- Scripting the inclusive city, narrating the self : contemporary Rust Belt memoirs in poetry and prose / Chris Katzenberg and Kornelia Freitag
- Whose Detroit? : fictions of land ownership and property in postindustrial America / Julia Sattler
- To the bodega or the café? : microscripts of gentrification in contemporary fiction / Maria Sulimma
- Redemptive scripts in the city novel / Lieven Ameel
- Patterned pasts and scripted futures : Cleveland's waterfronts and hopes of changing the narrative / Johannes Maria Krickl and Michael Wala
- The creative democracy : a critique of concepts of creativity in contemporary urban discourse / Hanna Rodewald and Walter Grünzweig
- Forms, frames, and possible futures / Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780814215524
- 0814215521
- OCLC:
- 1375439593
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