Narrative in Urban Planning - A Practical Field Guide

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 authors are literary scholars who have extensive experience in planning practice, training planning scholars and practitioners or advising municipalities on how to harness the power of stories in urban development.

About the author

Jens Martin Gurr, geb. 1974, ist Professor für britische und englischsprachige Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Er ist Mitbegründer und Sprecher des Kompetenzfeldes Metropolenforschung in der Universitätsallianz Ruhr (KoMet). Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören Literarische Stadtforschung, Theorien und Methoden der Stadt- und Metropolenforschung, Modelltheorie, Literatur und Klimawandel sowie die britische Literatur des 17. bis 21. Jahrhunderts und die zeitgenössische US-Literatur.

Summary

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 authors are literary scholars who have extensive experience in planning practice, training planning scholars and practitioners or advising municipalities on how to harness the power of stories in urban development.

Report

Besprochen in:
https://blogs.helsinki.fi, 17.04.2023

Product details

• Authors: Lieven Ameel, Barbara Buchenau, Jens Gurr, Jens Martin Gurr
• Assisted by: Lieven Ameel (Editor), Barbara Buchenau (Editor), Jens Mar Gurr (Editor), Jens Martin Gurr (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2023
• EAN: 9783837666175
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6617-5
• No. of pages: 146
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 10 mm x 226 mm
• Weight: 216 g
• Illustrations: 5 SW-Abb., 13 Farbabb.
• Series: Urban Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Urban and regional sociology; City, Literature, Literary Studies, Sociology, Humangeographie, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Planning, Storytelling, Narrative, Communities, Cultural Geography, auseinandersetzen, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung und -politik, Sociology and anthropology, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, Narrative Turn, Story Turn