Planning As Persuasive Storytelling

Author : James A. Throgmorton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226799636
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning as Persuasive Storytelling written by James A. Throgmorton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Lieven Ameel
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839466172
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative in Urban Planning written by Lieven Ameel and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do planners need to know in order to use narrative approaches responsibly in their practice? This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of narrative in planning. What makes narratives coherent, probable, persuasive, even necessary - but also potentially harmful, manipulative and divisive? How can narratives help to build more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive communities? The authors are literary scholars who have extensive experience in planning practice, training planning scholars and practitioners or advising municipalities on how to harness the power of stories in urban development.

Author : Lieven Ameel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000221636
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning written by Lieven Ameel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives, in the context of urban planning, matter profoundly. Planning theory and practice have taken an increasing interest in the role and power of narrative, and yet there is no comprehensive study of how narrative, and concepts from narrative and literary theory more broadly, can enrich planning and policy. The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning addresses this gap by defining key concepts such as story, narrative, and plot against a planning backdrop, and by drawing up a functional typology of different planning narratives. In two extended case studies from the planning of the Helsinki waterfront, it applies the narrative concepts and theories to a broad range of texts and practices, considering ways toward a more conscious and contextualized future urban planning. Questioning what is meant when we speak of narratives in urban planning, and what typologies we can draw up, it presents a threefold taxonomy of narratives within a planning framework. This book will serve as an important reference text for upper-level students and researchers interested in urban planning.

Author : Enrico Gualini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135007462
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning and Conflict written by Enrico Gualini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning and Conflict discusses the reasons for conflicts around urban developments and analyzes their shape in contemporary cities. It offers an interdisciplinary framework for scholars to engage with the issue of planning conflicts, focusing on both empirical and theoretical inquiry. By reviewing different perspectives for planners to engage with conflicts, and not simply mediate or avoid them, Planning and Conflict provides a theoretically informed look forward to the future of engaged, responsive city development that involves all its stakeholders.

Author : Louis Albrechts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135991855
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Network Society written by Louis Albrechts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for graduate level courses in urban studies, city and regional planning, and urban design, Albrecht and Mandelbaum's text examines the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society create for Urban and Regional Planning.

Author : Laxmi Ramasubramanian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319680412
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Methods for Planning Practitioners written by Laxmi Ramasubramanian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape. The book is unique because it links different aspects of the planning/policy-making enterprise with the appropriate methods and approaches, thus contextualizing the use of specific methods and techniques within a sociopolitical and ethical framework. This volume familiarizes readers with the diverse range of methods, techniques, and skills that must be applied at different scales in dynamic workplace environments where planning policies and programs are developed and implemented. This book is an invaluable resource in helping new entrants to the planning discourse and profession set aside their own disciplinary biases and empowering them to use their expert knowledge to address societal concerns.

Author : Kristof Van Assche
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800889003
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design written by Kristof Van Assche and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides a nuanced overview of the key concepts of urban and regional planning and design. Embracing a broad understanding of planning and design within and beyond the professions, it examines what planners and designers can do in and for a community.

Author : James A. Throgmorton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000544222
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Co-Crafting the Just City written by James A. Throgmorton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Leonie Sandercock
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826464637
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolis II written by Leonie Sandercock and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century will be the century of multicultural cities, of the struggle for equality and diversity and the struggle against fundamentalism. Cosmopolis II presents a truly global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St. Louis. Passionately written and superbly illustrated with a range of specially commissioned images, Cosmopolis II is a visionary book of our urban future.

Author : Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317086775
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nordic Experiences of Sustainable Planning written by Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a decade, there has been a drive towards sustainability in planning throughout the Nordic countries. But are these countries experiencing a paradigm shift in planning research and practice with regards to sustainability? Or is the sustainability discourse leading them into an impasse in planning? This book includes overviews of the planning systems in the five Nordic countries, drawing attention to their increasing focus on sustainability. A leading team of scholars from the fields of planning, urban design, architecture, landscape, economics, real estate and tourism explore how the notion of sustainability has shaped planning research in the Nordic countries. Case studies from Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark shed light on what lessons can be learned and some possible future developments. By focusing on the actual settings and practices of local and regional planning activities, it enables a discussion on the current state of planning for a more sustainable future. This book will be valuable reading for students and academics interested in planning policy, environmental policy, architecture and urban design work.