Fleming City of Rhetoric

Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7731-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleming, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface

1. Introduction: Death Corner

Part One The Geography of Politics

2. The Placelessness of Political Theory
3. A New Civic Map for Our Time

Part Two Designing the Twenty-fi rst Century Public Sphere

4. Ghetto: Chicago, 1995
5. Suburbia: Schaumburg, Illinois
6. The New Urbanism: North Town Village
7. Home: 1230 North Burling Street

Part Three Lessons for Theory and Practice

8. Toward a New Sociospatial Dialectic
9. Cities of Rhetoric
10. Afterword

Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Fleming is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.