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A Major Redevelopment Project Near Downtown Iowa City

On August 31, 2012, the City of Iowa City issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the redevelopment of the northeast corner of the College and Gilbert Street intersection. Located immediately to the… more →

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A Major Redevelopment Project Near Downtown Iowa City

jthrog65 wrote 6 months ago: On August 31, 2012, the City of Iowa City issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the redevelopment … more →

Tags: Planning, Iowa City, sustainability, physical-design, Local Politics, urban redevelopment, Economic Development, Community Identity, Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

A “Jane Jacobs Walk” for Iowa City

jthrog65 wrote 1 year ago: [Note:A slightly different version of this short piece can be found at: Jim Throgmorton, “Look at ci … more →

Tags: Planning, Iowa City, Newspaper Columns, physical-design, Economic Development, Storytelling, UNESCO City of Literature, Jane Jacobs, Center for the Living City

Pork, Planning and Place

jthrog65 wrote 1 year ago: [Note: A complete version of this paper can be found at the following: Throgmorton, James A. 2012. P … more →

Tags: Planning, sustainability, persuasive storyteling, scholarly articles, Conflict Resolution, ecological footprint, tenticular radiations, Network Society, Collaborative Planning

Announcing Candidacy for City Council

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: [Note: This post can also be found on Facebook at “Jim Throgmorton for City Council" (www.facebook.c … more →

Tags: Iowa City, sustainability, 2011 City Council campaign, Local Politics

Remembering Jean Martin on Memorial Day

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: [Note: A slightly different version of this essay can be found at: Jim Throgmorton, “Remembering Jea … more →

Tags: Iowa City, Conflict Resolution, Newspaper Columns, Community Identity, Jean Martin, collective memory

5 P.M. (CDT) by the Iowa River

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: The Iowa River in Iowa City at 5 p.m. (CDT) on May 5, 1999 In the late 1990s I began feeling that no … more →

Tags: Iowa City, sustainability, unpublished manuscript, creative art projects, embodied emotions, sustainable economy of spirit, Iowa River watershed, University of Iowa

The New Weird Iowa City

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: For a slightly different version, see Jim Throgmorton. 2009. “The new weird Iowa City.” Iowa City Pr … more →

Tags: Iowa City, Newspaper Columns, Community Identity, founders tales, essentialism, "That Old Weird America"

Iowa City’s Search for a Brand

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: For a slightly different version, see Jim Throgmorton. 2008. Iowa City Press-Citizen (August 20): 16 … more →

Tags: Iowa City, Newspaper Columns, persuasive storytelling, Economic Development, Cedar Rapids, Branding, Community Identity, UNESCO City of Literature, Univ. of Iowa Writers Workshop

Seeing a Familiar Place with Unfamiliar Eyes

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: For a slightly different version, see Jim Throgmorton. 2008. Iowa City Press-Citizen (June 4): 17A. … more →

Tags: Iowa City, Newspaper Columns, narratives, physical-design, Storytelling

The Bridge to Gretna: Three Faces of a Case

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: James A. Throgmorton. 2008. Planning Theory & Practice 9, 2 (June): 187-208. This paper explores … more →

Tags: persuasive storyteling, Planning theory, scholarly articles, New Orleans, normal discourse, persuasive argumentation, global scale web of relationships, racism, City regions

Inventing “the Greatest”: Constructing Louisville’s Future out of Story and Clay

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: James A. Throgmorton. 2007. Planning Theory 6, 3 (November): 237-262. In earlier publications I have … more →

Tags: Planning, sustainability, persuasive storyteling, Planning theory, scholarly articles, planning history, Louisville, persuasive storytelling, Future

Planning as Persuasive Storytelling in a Global Scale Web of Relationships

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: James A. Throgmorton. 2003. Planning Theory 2, 2: 125-151. This article revisits my earlier (1996 an … more →

Tags: Planning, persuasive storyteling, Planning theory, scholarly articles, other cities, Civil Rights Movement, Berlin, persuasive storytelling, Future

Imagining Sustainable Places

jthrog65 wrote 2 years ago: James A. Throgmorton. 2003. In Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton. Story and Sustainability. … more →

Tags: Planning, Iowa City, persuasive storyteling, Planning theory, scholarly articles, Minority groups, persuasive storytelling, sustainability, ecological sensibility


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