| Title |
Jane Jacobs' Smart-Home Enthymemes: Ambiguous Urban Appeals in Google's Toronto Smart City |
| ID_Doc |
38642 |
| Authors |
Chandler, C |
| Title |
Jane Jacobs' Smart-Home Enthymemes: Ambiguous Urban Appeals in Google's Toronto Smart City |
| Year |
2023 |
| Published |
Western Journal Of Communication, 87, 5 |
| DOI |
10.1080/10570314.2022.2146460 |
| Abstract |
This article examines how appeals to the urbanist legacy of Jane Jacobs were deployed by both supporters and opponents of a proposed smart city development in Toronto. The analysis indicates how these contrasting allusions to Jacobs' urban ideals were facilitated by a longstanding ideological fluidity in Jacobs' writings and an enthymematic exploitation of ambiguities around the interpretation of her ideas. I argue that the enthymematic status of Jacobsian concepts provides a productive ambiguity and strategic rhetorical resource for problematizing hegemonic planning agendas that are presented as post-political. |
| Author Keywords |
Jane Jacobs; Planning Discourse; Post-Political Rhetoric; Smart Cities; Urban Communication |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000888533500001 |
| WoS Category |
Communication |
| Research Area |
Communication |
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