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Co-Crafting the Just City - Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned Mayor (Hardcover)
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Co-Crafting the Just City - Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned Mayor (Hardcover)
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The 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that
planning faculty have long desired: the opportunity for one of
their own to serve as mayor. In this new book, former Iowa City
Mayor and Professor Emeritus James A. Throgmorton provides readers
a sense of what democratically-elected city council members and
mayors in the United States do and what it feels like to occupy and
enact those roles. He does so by telling a set of "practice
stories" focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on what he, a
retired planning professor at the University of Iowa, experienced
and learned as a council member from 2012 through 2019 and,
simultaneously, as mayor from 2016 through 2019. The book proposes
a practical, action-oriented theory about how city futures are
being (and can be) shaped, showing that storytelling of various
kinds plays a very important but poorly understood role in the
co-crafting process, and demonstrating that skillful use of
ethically-sound persuasive storytelling (especially by mayors) can
improve our collective capacity to create better places. The book
documents efforts to alleviate race-related inequities, increase
the supply of affordable housing, adopt an ambitious climate action
plan, improve relationships between city government and diverse
marginalized communities, pursue more inclusive and sustainable
land development codes/policies, and more. It will be of great
interest to urban planning faculty and students and elected
officials looking to collaboratively craft better cities for the
future.
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