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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three nuclear units, constitutive storytelling about the future, consumer intervenors, construction cost audits, power expansion plan, nuclear expansion plan, percent cogeneration, six nuclear units, traditional rate making, regulated natural monopoly, electric power planning, persuasive storytelling, diverse rhetorics, other intervenors, abnormal discourse, scientific planners, franchise negotiations, regulatory bargain, modernist planners, modernist story, city takeover, public utility economics, modernist planning, frozen embrace, percent rate increase Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Com Ed, Supreme Court, Commonwealth Edison, Public Utilities Act, Mayor Washington, Mayor Daley, Howard Learner, Chicago Tribune, Attorney General, Governor Thompson, Illinois Commerce Commission, Appellate Court, Mayor Sawyer, Three Mile Island, New York, Planning Department, African Americans, General Assembly, Richard Daley, Sam Mitchell, Harold Washington, Sixth Order, West Side, Iowa City, Robert Helman New!
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Com Ed, Supreme Court, Commonwealth Edison, Public Utilities Act, Mayor Washington, Mayor Daley, Howard Learner, Chicago Tribune, Attorney General, Governor Thompson, Illinois Commerce Commission, Appellate Court, Mayor Sawyer, Three Mile Island, New York, Planning Department, African Americans, General Assembly, Richard Daley, Sam Mitchell, Harold Washington, Sixth Order, West Side, Iowa City, Robert Helman New!
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- Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown by Daniel F. Ford on page 76, page 90, and Back Matter
- Rhetoric Of The Human Sciences: Language And Argument In Scholarship And Public Affairs by John S. Nelson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Foucault and Derrida: The Other Side of Reason by Roy Boyne in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Two Centuries of American Planning by Daniel Schaffer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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