Journal article
Planning as persuasive storytelling in a geobal-scale web of relationships
Planning Theory, Vol.2(2), pp.125-151
2003
DOI: 10.1177/14730952030022003
Abstract
This article revisits Throgmorton's 1996 claim that planning can be thought of as a form of persuasive storytelling about the future. It responds to three broad lines of critique, connects the claim to contemporary scholarship about `transnational urbanism' and the `network society,' and revises the author's initial claim. This revision suggests that planners should tell future-oriented stories that help people imagine and create sustainable places. It further argues that, to be persuasive to a wide range of readers, planners' stories will have to make narrative and physical space for diverse locally-grounded common urban narratives. It recognizes that powerful actors will strive to eliminate or marginalize competing stories.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Planning as persuasive storytelling in a geobal-scale web of relationships
- Creators
- James A Throgmorton - University of Iowa, Planning and Public Affairs
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Planning Theory, Vol.2(2), pp.125-151
- DOI
- 10.1177/14730952030022003
- ISSN
- 1473-0952
- eISSN
- 1741-3052
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2003
- Academic Unit
- Planning and Public Affairs
- Record Identifier
- 9983764591602771
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