“Is there hope for the future?”: the Literary Method of Urban Design as Applied to the South Wales Valleys:

Alan Marshall

doi:10.14456/tiat.2025.9

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Alan Marshall Mahidol University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14456/tiat.2025.9

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Scenario art, Literary art , Community futures, Design fiction, Urban design

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This paper tests the possibility of utilizing a new ‘literature based’ method for the long-term anticipation of future urban settings and their presentation for public and professional consumption via scenario art. This method, the Literary Method of Urban Design, combines design with the literary arts in quite a specific manner and, within this paper, applies it to a specific regional urbanized setting: the South Welsh Valleys. The Literary Method of Urban Design presupposes that the cultural character of a city or town can be predicted -- along with its socio-economic and environmental challenges -- by studying and applying the themes of a geographically informed literary work that describes or references that city or town (including its social or environmental context). Though it can be considered a rather artistic approach to possible urban futures, this paper follows the idea that the literary arts --with their predilection to emotional intensity are probably a useful resource for urbanists as they may contemplate the potentially tragic and epochal changes that (Welsh) towns and cities will likely face in the coming century.

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