Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text,
Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the
City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban
studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both
representations of the city and as blueprints for its future
development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do
literary texts represent urban complexities - and how can they
capture the uniqueness of a given city? How do literary texts
simulate layers of urban memory - and how can they reinforce or
help dissolve path dependencies in urban development? What role can
literary studies play in interdisciplinary urban research? Are the
blueprints or 'recipes' for urban development that most quickly
travel around the globe - such as the 'creative city', the 'green
city' or the 'smart city' - really always the ones that best solve
a given problem? Or is the global spread of such travelling urban
models not least a matter of their narrative packaging? In
answering these key questions, this book also advances a literary
studies contribution to the general theory of models, tracing a
heuristic trajectory from the analysis of literary texts as
representations of urban developments to an analysis of literary
strategies in planning documents and other pragmatic, non-literary
texts.
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