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Planning as Persuasive Storytelling: The Rhetorical Construction of Chicago's Electric Future

Planning as Persuasive Storytelling: The Rhetorical Construction of Chicago's Electric Future

Throgmorton, James a.

Paperback

Series: New Practices of Inquiry

General LawGeneral ScienceGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0226799646
ISBN13: 9780226799643
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Jul 1 1996
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.09 Depth: 9.07
Language: English
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.

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