Introduction: City scripts in urban literary and cultural studies / Maria Sulimma, Barbara Buchenau, and Jens Martin Gurr -- Black Lives Matter graffiti and creative forms of dissent : two sites of counterscripting in Denver, Colorado / Florian Deckers and Renee M. Moreno -- Walking down Woodward : (re)telling a city's stories through urban figures / Juliane Borosch and Barbara Buchenau -- Tiny architecture and narrative : scripting minimal urban living spaces / Katharina Wood and Randi Gunzenhäuser -- Narrative path dependencies in sustainable and inclusive urban planning : Portland's Albina neighborhoods / Elisabeth Haefs and Jens Martin Gurr -- Scripting the inclusive city, narrating the self : contemporary Rust Belt memoirs in poetry and prose / Chris Katzenberg and Kornelia Freitag -- Whose Detroit? : fictions of land ownership and property in postindustrial America / Julia Sattler -- To the bodega or the café? : microscripts of gentrification in contemporary fiction / Maria Sulimma -- Redemptive scripts in the city novel / Lieven Ameel -- Patterned pasts and scripted futures : Cleveland's waterfronts and hopes of changing the narrative / Johannes Maria Krickl and Michael Wala -- The creative democracy : a critique of concepts of creativity in contemporary urban discourse / Hanna Rodewald and Walter Grünzweig -- Forms, frames, and possible futures / Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton.