Urban Narratives

Abstract

Diverging notions of what is meant with and under narrative(s), it’s (their) function and use has been in the centre of research and practical attention in previous years especially regarding the narrative and rhetorical structure of urban theory, planning and design. The concept of narrative is ’’borrowed’’ from literary theory, where notion of narratology is commonly described as the study of narrative structure, looking at what narratives have in common and what makes one different from another.