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 …

Co-authored with Barbara Buchenau, Chapter 7,“'Scripts' in Urban Development: Procedural
Knowledge, Self-Description and Persuasive Blueprint for the Future” introduces the concept …

Released at an unintentionally timely moment, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit its setting,
New York City, the novel The City We Became by NK Jemisin (2020) serves this article as a …

“Narrative Path Dependencies: From Scenario Building in Literary Texts to the Narratology
and Rhetoric of Pragmatic Texts” completes the reversal of perspectives: It builds on …

This volume aims to bring the methodological richness of American Studies to the study of
space in the medium of video games. The essays assembled here map out conversations …

This essay argues that the scripting of the urban geography in Beat Cop complicates the
subversive potential ascribed to the everyday practice of walking by Michel de Certeau in …

Since the 1980s, the concept of storytelling has moved beyond the literary and cultural
arena into other dimensions of public life. It has become a subject of interest in fields of …

City planning thrives on future-oriented imagination and on visions of the possible city,
created in dialogue with citizens as well as with policymakers. It is intimately bound up with …

A very strong element of Detroit is that there is a lot of industrial wasteland–and a lot of
nature, too‒and for us, the graphic designers, it was an incredible playground: The …

This article explores the presence and function of American templates of the stereotypical
“ghetto” in the transnational urban imagination, taking the cities of the German Ruhr region …