Planning as Persuasive Storytelling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planning as Persuasive Storytelling write by James A. Throgmorton. This book was released on 1996. Planning as Persuasive Storytelling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Planning as Persuasive Storytelling
Planning as Persuasive Storytelling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planning as Persuasive Storytelling write by James A. Throgmorton. This book was released on 1996-07. Planning as Persuasive Storytelling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Planning as Persuasive Storytelling is a revealing look at the world of political conflict surrounding the Commonwealth Edison Company's ambitious nuclear power plant construction program in northern Illinois during the 1980s. Examining the clash between the utility, consumer groups, community-based groups, the Illinois Commerce Commission, and the City of Chicago, Throgmorton argues that planning can best be thought of as a form of persuasive storytelling. A planner's task is to write future-oriented texts that employ language and figures of speech designed to construct constituencies that the planner's vision is both desirable and feasible. Though seeking to persuade, the planner must also remain open to transformation through honest engagement with contending stories. Juxtaposing stories about efforts to construct Chicago's electric future, Planning as Persuasive Storytelling suggests a shift in how we think about planning. In order to account for the fragmented and conflicted nature of contemporary American life and politics, that shift would be away from "science" and the "experts" and toward persuasive storytelling by diverse authors"--P. [4] of cover.
Planners in Politics
Planners in Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planners in Politics write by Louis Albrechts. This book was released on 2020-03-28. Planners in Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this innovative book, ten executive politicians with backgrounds in planning from around the world dissect their own political careers. Reflecting on the often structural impact of their work in political decision-making, they also consider the translation of their experiences back into academic life or professional practice.
Co-Crafting the Just City
Co-Crafting the Just City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Co-Crafting the Just City write by James A. Throgmorton. This book was released on 2022-03-23. Co-Crafting the Just City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that planning faculty have long desired: the opportunity for one of their own to serve as mayor. In this new book, former Iowa City Mayor and Professor Emeritus James A. Throgmorton provides readers a sense of what democratically-elected city council members and mayors in the United States do and what it feels like to occupy and enact those roles. He does so by telling a set of “practice stories” focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on what he, a retired planning professor at the University of Iowa, experienced and learned as a council member from 2012 through 2019 and, simultaneously, as mayor from 2016 through 2019. The book proposes a practical, action-oriented theory about how city futures are being (and can be) shaped, showing that storytelling of various kinds plays a very important but poorly understood role in the co-crafting process, and demonstrating that skillful use of ethically-sound persuasive storytelling (especially by mayors) can improve our collective capacity to create better places. The book documents efforts to alleviate race-related inequities, increase the supply of affordable housing, adopt an ambitious climate action plan, improve relationships between city government and diverse marginalized communities, pursue more inclusive and sustainable land development codes/policies, and more. It will be of great interest to urban planning faculty and students and elected officials looking to collaboratively craft better cities for the future.
Planning Matter
Planning Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planning Matter write by Robert A. Beauregard. This book was released on 2015-11-03. Planning Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world—from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms—yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which they’re immersed. Too often planners treat built forms, weather patterns, plants, animals, or regulatory technologies as passively awaiting commands rather than actively involved in the workings of cities and regions. In the ambitious and provocative Planning Matter, Robert A. Beauregard sets out to offer a new materialist perspective on planning practice that reveals the many ways in which the nonhuman things of the world mediate what planners say and do. Drawing on actor-network theory and science and technology studies, Beauregard lays out a framework that acknowledges the inevitable insufficiency of our representations of reality while also engaging more holistically with the world in all of its diversity—including human and nonhuman actors alike.
