Story and sustainability [electronic resource] : planning, practice, and possibility for American cities / edited by Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton

Title	Story and sustainability [electronic resource] : planning, practice, and possibility for American cities / edited by Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton
Imprint	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003
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Descript	viii, 267 p. : ill., maps

CONTENT

Introduction : Blueprint blues / Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton -- Storytelling, sustainability, democracy, and the American city. Making space : stories in the practice of planning / Barbara Eckstein ; Imagining sustainable places / James A. Throgmorton ; Democracy, storytelling, and the sustainable city / Robert A. Beauregard -- Raising questions/raising Cain. The old neighborhood / Carlo Rotella ; Ceola's vision, our blessing : the story of an evolving community-university partnership in East St. Louis, Illinois / Kenneth M. Reardon ; Dreaming the sustainable city : organizing hope, negotiating fear, mediating memory / Leonie Sandercock ; In search of a new landfill site / Michael Berkshire ; Narrative and other tools / Seymour J. Mandelbaum ; The peninsula / Karin Franklin ; Tales of a geographer-planner / Edward W. Soja ; The meanest streets / Joe Barthel

SUBJECT

City planning -- United States
Sociology
Urban -- United States
Electronic books.