Journal article
Planning as Persuasive Storytelling About the Future: Negotiating an Electric Power Rate Settlement in Illinois
Journal of planning education and research, Vol.12(1), pp.17-31
10/1992
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X9201200103
Abstract
This paper suggests that good planning is persuasive storytelling about the future, and that planners are future-oriented storytellers who write persuasive texts that other people read (construct and interpret) in diverse and often conflicting ways. The paper explores the merits of this view by analyzing Common wealth Edison Company's hotly-contested effort to persuade the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to approve an innovative rate increase for three large nuclear power plants. The analysis concludes that Edison failed to persuade the ICC and others because the company's story had crucial weaknesses in plot, point of view, and character develop ment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Planning as Persuasive Storytelling About the Future: Negotiating an Electric Power Rate Settlement in Illinois
- Creators
- James A. Throgmorton - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of planning education and research, Vol.12(1), pp.17-31
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- DOI
- 10.1177/0739456X9201200103
- ISSN
- 0739-456X
- eISSN
- 1552-6577
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/1992
- Academic Unit
- Planning and Public Affairs
- Record Identifier
- 9984269250202771
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