Copyright (c) 2013 University of Iowa All rights reserved. http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs Recent documents in School of Urban & Regional Planning Publications en-us Thu, 16 May 2013 16:34:56 PDT 3600 http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/7 http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/7 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:22:19 PDT James A. Throgmorton http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/6 http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/6 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:07:33 PDT This paper examines two land developments in the cities of Freiburg (Germany) and Chula Vista (California) with the purpose of comparing their transportation and land use planning institutions, processes, and actions for the importance placed on achieving sustainability. Planning practicioners in both places are committed to concepts of sustainability, but their respective attempts to achieve sustainability differ dramatically. Freiburg is pursuing relatively high density land development in conjunction with transit service, while Chula Vista is pursuing relatively low density, auto-oriented land development patterns.

]]> James A. Throgmorton http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/5 http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/5 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:07:32 PDT In earlier publications I have argued that planning can be thought of as a form of persuasive and constitutive storytelling about the future. In this paper I tell a story about the transformation of Louisville, Kentucky, a city of approximately 700,000 people located in the middle of the United States. The story begins in the early 1950s with a youth named Cassius Marcellus Clay, moves through space and time, weaves together a series of locally-grounded common urban narratives, and ends at a new Center in Louisville named after Muhammad Ali. By weaving these tales together, I seek to demonstrate how narrative might be used to generate a more capacious approach to planning, but also to indicate how the physical design of the city-region has to be changed to make space for diverse common urban narratives. I end by suggesting that such an approach might help increase the sustainability of Louisville and other city-regions.

]]> James A. Throgmorton http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/4 http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/4 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:07:32 PDT James A. Throgmorton http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/3 http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/3 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:07:30 PDT This article revisits Throgmorton’s 1996 claim that planning can be thought of as a form of persuasive storytelling about the future. It responds to three broad lines of critique, connects the claim to contemporary scholarship about ‘transnational urbanism’ and the ‘network society,’ and revises the author’s initial claim. This revision suggests that planners should tell future-oriented stories that help people imagine and create sustainable places. It further argues that, to be persuasive to a wide range of readers, planners’ stories will have to make narrative and physical space for diverse locally-grounded common urban narratives. It recognizes that powerful actors will strive to eliminate or marginalize competing stories.

]]> James A. Throgmorton http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/2 http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/2 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:35:47 PDT This paper investigates the power of ―"walls" to constrain thought and silence diverse voices of reason within planning. Using die Mauer (The Berlin Wall) as a linking metaphor, this paper juxtaposes mid-1950s planning in a spatially- and ideologically-divided Berlin (Germany) against Harland Bartholomew‘s mid-1950s planning in a racially-divided Louisville, Kentucky (USA). It then juxtaposes the latter against a mid-1950s narrative about efforts to desegregate housing in Louisville. This juxtaposition reveals that some people in Louisville used the Cold War divide between East and West to reinforce the long-standing racial divide between blacks and whites. Moreover, it reveals that, by deferring to Cold War-related racial politics that could not be questioned, Bartholomew‘s technical approach to planning silenced other voices of reason and thereby reflected and reproduced the race-inflected politics of the Cold War divide. The paper concludes by briefly considering what Bartholomew might have done differently in the context and by exploring what this juxtaposition of stories implies for planning in the context of the contemporary ―"war against terrorists."

]]> James A. Throgmorton http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/1 http://ir.uiowa.edu/urban_pubs/1 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:43:22 PDT James A. Throgmorton et al.