- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (11 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262050706
- ISBN-13: 978-0262050708
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,938,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"American metropolitan areas are shaped by stories about city life as varied as the dreams of city planners, the hopes of community activists and downtown developers, and the self-fulfilling prophecy of white flight generated by tales of inner city crime. At long last, *Story and Sustainability* gives these stories -- and more -- the attention they deserve, combining theoretical insight with on-the-ground investigation of their impact. The book is a major addition to the literature about cities."--Gerald E. Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor, Harvard Law School, and author of *City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls*
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Story and Sustainability explores the role of story in planning theory and practice, with the goal of creating U.S. cities able to balance competing claims for economic growth, environmental health, and social justice. In the book, urban practitioners and scholars from fields as diverse as American studies, English, geography, history, planning, and criminal justice reflect critically on the traditional exclusionary power of storytelling and on its potential to facilitate the transformations of imagination, theory, and practice necessary to create sustainable, democratic American cities.The book begins with an editors' introduction identifying story, sustainable U.S. cities, and democracy as the three key themes. Part I advances and refines these concepts, connects them to contemporary U.S. urban planning, and provides tools that can be used when reading and interpreting the texts in part II. Part II exemplifies, amplifies, and modifies the key themes and arguments through the presentation of eight texts: theoretical and experiential, academic and nonacademic, expository and narrative, and familiar and unfamiliar. The combined focus on story and urban sustainability makes this book a unique contribution to planning literature.
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On his first morning in Harlem, Ralph Ellison's invisible man, the central character in his novel of the same name (1952), gazes upon the tall and mysterious skyscrapers far down the island. Read the first page
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On his first morning in Harlem, Ralph Ellison's invisible man, the central character in his novel of the same name (1952), gazes upon the tall and mysterious skyscrapers far down the island. Read the first page
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