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Planning as persuasive storytelling : the rhetorical construction of Chicago's electric future
- Title
- Planning as persuasive storytelling : the rhetorical construction of Chicago's electric future / James A. Throgmorton.
- Author
- Throgmorton, James A.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HD9685.U7 C698 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- New practices of inquiry
- Uniform Title
- New practices of inquiry.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-300) and index.
- Contents
- Prelude: A Strange Place, an Alien Language -- 1. The Irony of Modernist Planning -- 2. The Argumentative or Rhetorical Turn in Planning -- 3. The Modernist Institution and Rhetoric of Regulated Natural Monopoly -- 4. Commonwealth Edison's Ambitious Nuclear Power Expansion Plan, 1973-1986 -- 5. The Best Deal for Illinois Consumers? Assessing Commonwealth Edison's "Negotiated Settlement" -- 6. Edison Completes Its Nuclear Power Expansion Plan, But Who Will Pay for the Last of It? -- 7. Precinct Captains at the Nuclear Switch? Exploring Chicago's Electric Power Options -- 8. Survey Research as a Trope in Electric Power Planning Arguments -- 9. Precinct Captains at the Nuclear Switch? The Mayor's Hand Turns up Empty -- 10. Frozen in a Passionate Embrace: Allocating Pain, Allocating Blame -- 11. The Plateau in the Web: Planning as Persuasive Storytelling within a Web of Relationships -- Postlude: E-mail to a Friend.
- ISBN
- 0226799638 (alk. paper)
- 0226799646 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95042963
- OCLC
- 33243847
- ocm33243847
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries