The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning

Plotting the Helsinki Waterfront
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-55586-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 275 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Narratives, in the context of urban planning, matter profoundly. Planning theory and practice have taken an increasing interest in the role and power of narrative, and yet there is no comprehensive study of how narrative, and concepts from narrative and literary theory more broadly, can enrich planning and policy.

The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning addresses this gap by defining key concepts such as story, narrative, and plot against a planning backdrop, and by drawing up a functional typology of different planning narratives. In two extended case studies from the planning of the Helsinki waterfront, it applies the narrative concepts and theories to a broad range of texts and practices, considering ways toward a more conscious and contextualized future urban planning. Questioning what is meant when we speak of narratives in urban planning, and what typologies we can draw up, it presents a threefold taxonomy of narratives within a planning framework.

This book will serve as an important reference text for upper-level students and researchers interested in urban planning.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ameel, Lieven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

- Introduction: Examining Narratives in the Context of Urban planning

Narratives Matter

Aims

Plotting the Waterfront

The Helsinki Waterfront, Jätkäsaari and Kalasatama

Sources

Outline

- Urban Planning and Narrative: Towards a Theory of Narrative Planning

The Narrative Turn in Planning: A Critical Overview

Different Kinds of Knowledge

Defining Narrative in Planning

What Is Not a Story?

- Narrative for, in and of Planning

A Threefold Taxonomy

Narratives for Planning

Narrative Mapping

Mapping the Helsinki Waterfront: A Concise Literary Case Study

Narratives in Planning: The Brief Story of the Helsinki Waterfront

Planning Maritime Helsinki

Narratives of Planning: Telling the Future of the Waterfront

Conclusion



- Emplotting Urban Regeneration: Narrative Strategies in Kalasatama

Emplotment as Spatial and Narrative Practice

Situating Kalasatama within a Plot

Metaphors of Kalasatama: "In the Armpit of the City"

Diverging Narratives: Urban Centre or Shopping Mall?

"How we live in 2033"

A Meshwork of Contradictory Storylines

Conclusion

- Genre and Metaphor in Planning Jätkäsaari

Dominant Narratives in Planning in Jätkäsaari

Simple Story, Complex Story, and Micro-Narrative

Narratives for Planning in Jätkäsaari

Jätkäsaari’s Identity Marker: The Hotel Controversy

Centre or Periphery?

Narratives of Planning in Jätkäsaari

A Bildungsroman for a Waterfront Development

Planning as Bildungsroman

"Man’s Island" or "Women’s City"?

Lost Opportunities for Planning with Narrative

Park "Good Hope"

Sustainable Jätkäsaari

Narratives and the Building Block

Planning with Diversity?

Conclusion

- Planning with Narrative

Narrative Mapping and PPGIS

Planning with Polyphony

Planning without Closure

Planning for Narrative Space

Teaching Planning with narrative

Conclusion

Sources

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lieven Ameel is a university lecturer in comparative literature at Tampere University, Finland. He holds a PhD in Finnish literature and comparative literature from the University of Helsinki and the JLU Giessen and is docent in urban studies and planning methods. He has published widely on literary experiences of the city, narrative planning, and urban futures. His other books include Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) and the co-edited volumes Literature and the Peripheral City (2015), Literary Second Cities (2017), and The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (2019).