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"Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline"--

"Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline"--

Abstract
This article examines the narratives involved in the planning of Jätkäsaari (Helsinki), an industrial harbour environment currently being redeveloped. It starts out with an analysis of Hyvä jätkä/Good Chap (Hannu Mäkelä, 2009), a literary novel commissioned by the city to promote the area, arguing that this cultural product should not be seen merely as a piece of cultural branding. Rather, the novel's fictional construction of the area's past and future draws attention to the narrative characteristics of planning itself. Using the concepts of literary genre and metaphor, an examination of Jätkäsaari's planning narratives shows the ambivalent and often contradictory planning visions of the area. This study aims at re-examining the considerable research tradition in urban and planning studies that sees urban planning as a form of storytelling, by applying concepts from literary and narrative theory to the analysis of planning narratives.

"Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature analyses experiences of the Finnish capital in prose fiction published in Finnish in the period 1890– 1940. It examines the relationships that are formed between Helsinki and fictional characters, focusing, especially, on the way in which urban public space is experienced. Particular attention is given to the description of movement through urban space. The primary material consists of a selection of more than sixty novels, collections of short stories and individual short stories. This study draws on two sets of theoretical frameworks: on the one hand, the expanding field of literary studies of the city, and on the other hand, concepts provided by humanistic and critical geography, as well as by urban studies. This study is the first monograph to examine Helsinki in literature written in Finnish. It shows that rich descriptions of urban life have formed an integral part of Finnish literature from the late nineteenth century onward. Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary Helsinki was approached from a variety of generic and thematic perspectives which were in close dialogue with international contemporary traditions and age-old images of the city, and defined by events typical of Helsinki's own history. Helsinki literature of the 1920s and 1930s further developed the defining traits that took form around the turn of the century, adding a number of new thematic and stylistic nuances. The city experience was increasingly aestheticized and internalized. As the centre of the city became less prominent in literature, the margins of the city and specific socially defined neighbourhoods gained in importance. Many of the central characteristics of how Helsinki is experienced in the literature published during this period remain part of the ongoing discourse on literary Helsinki: Helsinki as a city of leisure and light, inviting dreamy wanderings; the experience of a city divided along the fault lines of gender, class and language; the city as a disorientating and paralyzing cesspit of vice; the city as an imago mundi, symbolic of the body politic; the city of everyday and often very mundane experiences, and the city that invites a profound sense of attachment – an environment onto which characters project their innermost sentiments."

1. The Possible in Literature and Urban Life: Clearing the Field, Markku Salmela, Lieven Ameel, and Jason Finch -- 2. The Possibilities of Urban Informality: Two Views from Istanbul, Eric Prieto -- 3. Rising Towers, Rising Tides: Competing Visions of the Helsinki Waterfront in Planning and Fiction, Lieven Ameel -- 4. From Utopia to Retrotopia: The Cosmopolitan City in the Aftermath of Modernity, Chen Bar-Itzhak -- 5. Donald Barthelme's Impossible Cities, Markku Salmela -- 6. 'Cartographic Ecstasy': Mapping, Provinciality and Possible Spaces in Dmitrii Danilov's City Prose, Anni Lappela -- 7. Possibilities of Translocal Mapping in Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician, Lena Mattheis -- 8. Tipping Points: Gentrification and Urban Possibility, Hanna Henryson -- 9. Concrete Possibilities: The High-Rise Suburb in Swedish Children's and Young Adult Literature, Lydia Wistisen -- 10. 'Double Vision': Viennese Refugees in New York and Back Home Again, Joshua Parker -- 11. Utopian Thinking and the (Im)Possible UK Council Estate: The Birmingham Region in Literature, Image and Experience, Jason Finch -- 12. Afterword: Urban Possibilities in Times of Crisis, David Pinder.

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 planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of »narrative in planning«. What makes narratives coherent, probable, persuasive, even necessary - but also potentially harmful, manipulative and divisive? How can narratives help to build more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive communities? The contributors are literary scholars who have sound practical experience in planning practice, training planning scholars and practitioners or advising municipalities on how to harness the power of stories in urban development

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 planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of narrative in planning. What makes narratives coherent, probable, persuasive, even necessary - but also potentially harmful, manipulative and divisive? How can narratives help to build more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive communities? The authors are literary scholars who have extensive experience in planning practice, training planning scholars and practitioners or advising municipalities on how to harness the power of stories in urban development.