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City scripts : narratives of postindustrial urban futures / edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma.

Van Pelt Library PN56.C55 C55 2023
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Buchenau, Barbara, editor.
Gurr, Jens Martin, 1974- editor.
Sulimma, Maria, 1985- editor.
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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