Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.

Description:

viii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index.
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.

Summary:

'Story and Sustainability' explores the role of story in planning theory and practice, with the goal of creating US cities able to balance competing claims for economic growth, environmental health, and social justice.

ISBN:

0262050706 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262050708 (hc. ; alk. paper)
0262550431 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262550437 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning United States.
Sociology, Urban United States.
Urbanisme États-Unis.
Sociologie urbaine États-Unis.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Stadtplanung
Stadtsoziologie
Cities and towns United States.
Sustainable development United States.
United States.
USA

Added entries:

Eckstein, Barbara J.
Throgmorton, James A.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240460
Call No.: HT165.52 .S76 2003
Status: Available