Planning as Persuasive Storytelling
The Rhetorical Construction of Chicago’s Electric Future

328 pages
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28 halftones, 15 line drawings, 5 tables
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6 x 9
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© 1996
- Contents
Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prelude: A Strange Place, an Alien Language
1: The Irony of Modernist Planning
2: The Argumentative or Rhetorical Turn in Planning
3: The Modernist Institution and Rhetoric of Regulated Natural Monopoly
4: Commonwealth Edison’s Ambitious Nuclear Power Expansion Plan, 1973-
1986
5: The Best Deal for Illinois Consumers? Assessing Commonwealth Edison’s
"Negotiated Settlement"
6: Edison Completes Its Nuclear Power Expansion Plan, But Who Will Pay
for the Last of It?
7: Precinct Captains at the Nuclear Switch? Exploring Chicago’s Electric
Power Options
8: Survey Research as a Trope in Electric Power Planning Arguments
9: Precinct Captains at the Nuclear Switch? The Mayor’s Hand Turns up
Empty
10: Frozen in a Passionate Embrace: Allocating Pain, Allocating Blame
11: The Plateau in the Web: Planning as Persuasive Storytelling within a
Web of Relationships
Postlude: E-mail to a Friend
Notes
References
Illustration Credits
Index
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prelude: A Strange Place, an Alien Language
1: The Irony of Modernist Planning
2: The Argumentative or Rhetorical Turn in Planning
3: The Modernist Institution and Rhetoric of Regulated Natural Monopoly
4: Commonwealth Edison’s Ambitious Nuclear Power Expansion Plan, 1973-
1986
5: The Best Deal for Illinois Consumers? Assessing Commonwealth Edison’s
"Negotiated Settlement"
6: Edison Completes Its Nuclear Power Expansion Plan, But Who Will Pay
for the Last of It?
7: Precinct Captains at the Nuclear Switch? Exploring Chicago’s Electric
Power Options
8: Survey Research as a Trope in Electric Power Planning Arguments
9: Precinct Captains at the Nuclear Switch? The Mayor’s Hand Turns up
Empty
10: Frozen in a Passionate Embrace: Allocating Pain, Allocating Blame
11: The Plateau in the Web: Planning as Persuasive Storytelling within a
Web of Relationships
Postlude: E-mail to a Friend
Notes
References
Illustration Credits
Index
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