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Co-crafting the just city : tales from the field by a planning scholar turned mayor
Title
Co-crafting the just city : tales from the field by a planning scholar turned mayor / James A. Throgmorton.
ISBN
1000544206
1000544222
1003160999
9781000544206
9781000544220
9781003160991
9780367751043
9780367751050
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 25, 2022).
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"The 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that planning faculty have long desired: the opportunity for one of their own to serve as mayor. In this new book, former Iowa City Mayor and Professor Emeritus James A. Throgmorton provides readers a sense of what democratically-elected city council members and mayors in the United States do and what it feels like to occupy and enact those roles. He does so by telling a set of "practice stories" focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on what he, a tenured planning professor at the University of Iowa, experienced and learned as a council member from 2012 through 2019 and, simultaneously, as mayor from 2016 through 2019. The book proposes a practical, action-oriented theory about how city futures are being (and can be) shaped, showing that storytelling of various kinds plays a very important but poorly understood role in the co-crafting process, and demonstrating that skillful use of ethically-sound persuasive storytelling (especially by mayors) can improve our collective capacity to create better places. The book documents efforts to alleviate race-related inequities, increase the supply of affordable housing, adopt an ambitious climate action plan, improve relationships between city government and diverse marginalized communities, pursue more inclusive and sustainable land development codes/policies, and more. It will be of great interest to urban planning faculty and students and elected officials looking to collaboratively craft better cities for the future"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Throgmorton, James A. Co-crafting the just city New York, NY : Routledge, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: City crafting in a contested age
Trying to be a team player, 2012-13
Turning toward the just city, 2014-15
City crafting as mayor, 2016-19
Two days in the life of a mayor.
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Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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