Dealing with the Past Spatially: Storytelling and Sustainability in De-Industrializing Communities

1. Introduction At the latest since the so-called “spatial turn” in the humanities and the respective “narrative turn” in urban planning, cultural and literary studies and urban planning have been interested in each other as disciplines. Such interdisciplinary dialogue is helpful to recognize, for e...

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Published inEuropean journal of American studies Vol. 10; no. 3
Main Author Sattler, Julia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London European Association for American Studies 31.12.2015
The European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
Subjects
Cities
Coal mining
de-industrialization
Deindustrialization
Detroit
Globalization
Industrial development
Industrial production
Interdisciplinary aspects
Narratives
Ruhr Region
Storytelling
Sustainability
Urban planning
urban transformation
Ruhr Valley
Detroit Michigan
Detroit
urban transformation
de-industrialization
Storytelling
Ruhr Region
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Summary:1. Introduction At the latest since the so-called “spatial turn” in the humanities and the respective “narrative turn” in urban planning, cultural and literary studies and urban planning have been interested in each other as disciplines. Such interdisciplinary dialogue is helpful to recognize, for example, how cultural factors contribute to the failures or successes of a plan, or why the readership of a plan matters and is useful to take into account. It may potentially lead to more successfu...
ISSN:1991-9336
1991-9336
DOI:10.4000/ejas.11347