Journal article
Inventing the Greatest: Crafting Louisville's Future Out of story and Clay
Planning theory (London, England), Vol.6(3), pp.237-262
11/2007
DOI: 10.1177/1473095207082033
Abstract
In earlier publications I have argued that planning can be thought of as a form of persuasive and constitutive storytelling about the future. In this article I tell a story about the transformation of Louisville, Kentucky, a city of approximately 700,000 people located in the middle of the United States. The story begins in the early 1950s with a youth named Cassius Marcellus Clay, moves through space and time, weaves together a series of locally grounded common urban narratives, and ends at a new Center in Louisville named after Muhammad Ali. By weaving these tales together, I seek to demonstrate how narrative might be used to generate a more capacious approach to planning, but also to indicate how the physical design of the city-region has to be changed to make space for diverse common urban narratives. I end by suggesting that such an approach might help increase the sustainability of Louisville and other city-regions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Inventing the Greatest: Crafting Louisville's Future Out of story and Clay
- Creators
- James A. Throgmorton - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Planning theory (London, England), Vol.6(3), pp.237-262
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- DOI
- 10.1177/1473095207082033
- ISSN
- 1473-0952
- eISSN
- 1741-3052
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2007
- Academic Unit
- Planning and Public Affairs
- Record Identifier
- 9984269249202771
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