The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning

Type: News Date 16 August 2022 Narratives in urban development

Storytelling affects all aspects of urban development, regardless time and space. Narratives can legitimize power relations or question them. Dominant narratives can shape debates, models and practices over long periods of time. This is currently becoming visible in the discourse about inner cities and their potential, which has changed significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first research work of the BBSR on narratives was primarily about cooperative and participatory urban development. It is now being supplemented by work on spatial development in regions undergoing structural change and on digitization.
The publication presents the first results of these activities, enables basic classification and approaches concrete aspects in relation to spatial structural change, digital cities and local governance. Using current examples, the authors describe how we are currently talking about transformation in our cities and regions and how narratives are being integrated into ongoing processes of urban and spatial development.

Fact sheet
Title:Narrative in der Stadtentwicklung
Authors:Stephan Willinger ( stephan.willinger@bbr.bund.de )
Editor:BBSR
Series:BBSR-Online-Publikation
Issue:29/2022
Published:August 2022
ISSN:1868-0097
Language:German

For more information, please contact the authors and/or visit our German website.
This publication is only available in German.

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