City scripts : narratives of postindustrial urban futures /

Analyzes the past, present and future of postindustrial cities in Germany and the United States through assemblages of narrative, media, performance and urban matter.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Buchenau, Barbara (Editor), Gurr, Jens Martin, 1974- (Editor), Sulimma, Maria, 1985- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2023].
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Table of 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.