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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.
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.
Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure
the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the
complexity of urban systems cannot be understood - let alone
'managed' - by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone. But
while there has recently been significant progress in broadening
and refining the methodologies for the quantitative modeling of
complex urban systems, in deepening the theoretical understanding
of cities as complex systems, or in illuminating the implications
for urban planning, there is still a lack of well-founded
conceptual thinking on the methodological foundations and the
strategies of modeling urban complexity across the disciplines.
Bringing together experts from the fields of urban and spatial
planning, ecology, urban geography, real estate analysis,
organizational cybernetics, stochastic optimization, and literary
studies, as well as specialists in various systems approaches and
in transdisciplinary methodologies of urban analysis, the volume
seeks to advance the discussion on multidisciplinary approaches to
urban modeling. While engaging with the 'state of the art' in their
respective fields, the contributions are specifically written for
both experts from a broad range of disciplines as well as for urban
practitioners who feel the need for new approaches given the
uncertainty of current developments.
"Understanding Complex Urban Systems" takes as its point of
departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization
and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood let alone
managed by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone. But while
there has recently been significant progress in broadening and
refining the methodologies for the quantitative modeling of complex
urban systems, in deepening the theoretical understanding of cities
as complex systems, or in illuminating the implications for urban
planning, there is still a lack of well-founded conceptual thinking
on the methodological foundations and the strategies of modeling
urban complexity across the disciplines.
Bringing together experts from the fields of urban and spatial
planning, ecology, urban geography, real estate analysis,
organizational cybernetics, stochastic optimization, and literary
studies, as well as specialists in various systems approaches and
in transdisciplinary methodologies of urban analysis, the volume
seeks to advance the discussion on multidisciplinary approaches to
urban modeling. While engaging with the state of the art in their
respective fields, the contributions are specifically written for
both experts from a broad range of disciplines as well as for urban
practitioners who feel the need for new approaches given the
uncertainty of current developments.
Metropolitan research requires interdisciplinary collaboration in
order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions.
This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key
methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely
broad range of disciplines including architectural history, art
history, heritage conservation, literary and cultural studies,
spatial planning and planning theory, geoinformatics, urban
sociology, economic geography, operations research, technology
studies, transport planning, aquatic ecosystems research and urban
epidemiology. It is this transdisciplinary perspective that allows
metropolitain research to address recent social challenges of urban
life, such as mobility, accessibility, or sustainability.
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