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This article examines the Plan of Chicago as a rhetorical text that helped to shape discourse about citizenship with the goal of promoting a vision of civic betterment.
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The article highlight how urban planning documents act as rhetorical texts and extends the study of representative anecdotes.
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The tension between real and imagined city is structured into our narratives of urban planning. From its inception, planning has been linked to a vision of public betterment grounded in a modernist vision of the built environment. In this essay, we consider the language of planning and how those ideas inspired action across the urban community.
Dr Julian C Chambliss
Michigan State University
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This page is a summary of: The 1909Plan of Chicagoas Representative Anecdote: Constituting New Citizens for the Commercial American City, Rhetoric Review, March 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2016.1142809.
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