Story and sustainability
Subtitle: planning, practice, and possibility for American cities
By: edited by Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton
Contributors: Eckstein, Barbara J; Throgmorton, James A
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: City planning -- United States; Sociology, Urban -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Blueprint blues / Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton; title: 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; title: 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