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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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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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