Category Archives: planning theory

Publication of Co-crafting the Just City

Posted on March 29, 2022 by jthrog65

I am very pleased to report that on March 24, 2022, Routledge Press published my new book, Co-crafting the Just City: Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned Mayor. Narrated from my perspective as a city council member … Continue reading →

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Governing for Inclusivity, Justice, and Sustainability

Posted on January 2, 2017 by jthrog65

[Note: This post is a lengthier version of “Governing for Inclusivity, Justice, and Sustainability, ” The Gazette (January 1, 2017), p. _.] In a guest opinion for The Gazette last January, I wrote, “First you campaign and then, if elected, … Continue reading →

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Berlin in America

Posted on October 20, 2016 by jthrog65

[Note: This is a short unpublished paper I wrote in 2002. It related to a “Berlin in America” symposium I had organized at the University of Iowa concerning the interrelationship between urban public spaces and the long-term sustainability of democracy. … Continue reading →

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Enacting the Role of Mayor

Posted on January 8, 2016 by jthrog65

[Note: On January 4, 2016, the seven members of Iowa City’s City Council elected me mayor of our city. I am very honored that they entrust me with this important position. Immediately after the election, I took a few minutes … Continue reading →

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What can planning theory be now?

Posted on September 20, 2013 by jthrog65

This post is an abstract of a scholary article. For the article itself, see: James A. Throgmorton. 2013. In Greg Young and Deborah Stevenson. The Ashgate Companion to Planning and Culture. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, pp. 105-120. How should … Continue reading →

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Review of Christopher Alexander’s The Nature of Order

Posted on April 3, 2013 by jthrog65

[NOTE: This is a preliminary review as of April 2, 2013.] Twenty-seven years in the making, Christopher Alexander’s lavishly illustrated, 2,200 page, 4-volume The Nature of Order is an extraordinarily beautiful, visionary, ambitious and controversial book that has, astonishingly, not … Continue reading →

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Review of Goldstein’s Collaborative Resilience

Posted on March 6, 2013 by jthrog65

A complete version of this review can be found at: James A Throgmorton, 2013, Review of Goldstein’s Collaborative Resilience: Moving through Crisis to Opportunity. Journal of Planning Education and Research 33, 1 (Spring): 124-126. On April 17, 2007, a lone … Continue reading →

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A Road to Serfdom? Rethinking Hayek’s Libertarian Map

Posted on April 15, 2011 by jthrog65

In her Iowa City Press-Citizen column of April 11 (“Emancipation from Taxation”), Beth Cody presents another of her many spirited defenses of the Libertarians’ thinking about government and taxation. Readers of that newspaper will not be surprised to learn that … Continue reading →

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Review of Sanderock and Attili’s Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning

Posted on March 28, 2011 by jthrog65

A complete version of this review can be found at: James A. Throgmorton. 2011. Review of Sandercock and Attili’s Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning. Journal of Planning Education and Research 31, 1 (Spring): 112-113. This is a richly … Continue reading →

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Small World: Practicing Sustainable Planning and Politics in the Heart of America

Posted on February 23, 2011 by jthrog65

James A. Throgmorton. 2003. Unpublished book length manuscript. Small World is a first-person narrative (or practice story) about what happened when a small group of people tried to make their city (Iowa City, Iowa) more sustainable. The tale covers the … Continue reading →

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