Book
Planning as persuasive storytelling: the rhetorical construction of Chicago's electric future
New practices of inquiry, University of Chicago Press
1996
Abstract
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 persuade their constituencies of the validity of their vision. 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 rhetoric and storytelling.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Planning as persuasive storytelling: the rhetorical construction of Chicago's electric future
- Creators
- James A Throgmorton - University of Iowa, School of Planning and Public Affairs
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press; Chicago
- Series
- New practices of inquiry
- ISBN
- 0226799646; 9780226799643; 0226799638; 9780226799636
- Number of pages
- xxiii, 313 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1996
- Academic Unit
- School of Planning and Public Affairs
- Record Identifier
- 9984273953602771
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