1. Introduction: City Crafting in a Contested Age 2. Trying to Be a Team Player, 2012-13 3. Turning toward the Just City, 2014-15 4. City Crafting as Mayor, 2016-19 5. Two Days in the Life of a Mayor 6. Conclusion
James A. Throgmorton is Emeritus Professor, School of Planning and Public Affairs, The University of Iowa. He served on the Iowa City Council from 2012 through 2019 and was elected Mayor in 2016.
"To govern democratically requires maneuvering among diverse
passions and interests. Throgmorton deftly brings his readers into
the midst of the delicate balances that must be negotiated so that
cities can be effectively and justly governed. Co-Crafting the Just
City is an impressive capstone to a career spent exploring the many
pathways to the practices of progressive and democratic change."
Robert A. Beauregard, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University,
USA"This insightful and complex account reveals how Jim Throgmorton
struggled with class and economic inequalities, and with racial and
cultural politics too, to craft a more inclusive, resilient and
just city." John Forester, Professor, Cornell University, USA"This
book provides a much needed insiders’ view in political
decision-making in a relatively small American city. The
fine-grained story illustrates how a mayor with a planning
background was instrumental in crafting the city’s future for the
benefit of ordinary citizens." Louis Albrechts, Emeritus Professor
of Planning, University of Leuven, Belgium"This is a really
valuable record, not just of the life of a Councillor and Mayor,
but of the mechanics and dynamics of small town city government in
the US. Throgmorton shows through his experience how cities are
constructed through multiple webs of relations, and highlights the
importance of building relationships and networks if new ideas and
ways of working are to become established practices." Patsy Healey,
Emeritus Professor of Planning, Newcastle University, UK
"To govern democratically requires maneuvering among diverse
passions and interests. Throgmorton deftly brings his readers into
the midst of the delicate balances that must be negotiated so that
cities can be effectively and justly governed. Co-Crafting the Just
City is an impressive capstone to a career spent exploring the many
pathways to the practices of progressive and democratic change."
Robert A. Beauregard, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University,
USA"This insightful and complex account reveals how Jim Throgmorton
struggled with class and economic inequalities, and with racial and
cultural politics too, to craft a more inclusive, resilient and
just city." John Forester, Professor, Cornell University, USA"This
book provides a much needed insiders’ view in political
decision-making in a relatively small American city. The
fine-grained story illustrates how a mayor with a planning
background was instrumental in crafting the city’s future for the
benefit of ordinary citizens." Louis Albrechts, Emeritus Professor
of Planning, University of Leuven, Belgium"This is a really
valuable record, not just of the life of a Councillor and Mayor,
but of the mechanics and dynamics of small town city government in
the US. Throgmorton shows through his experience how cities are
constructed through multiple webs of relations, and highlights the
importance of building relationships and networks if new ideas and
ways of working are to become established practices." Patsy Healey,
Emeritus Professor of Planning, Newcastle University, UK"A
well-written book with a great deal of detail about the issues that
one mayor and his city faced as he went about attempting to make it
more just." Charles Connerly for the Journal of Urban
Affairs"Co-Crafting the Just City is an enjoyable, well-written
book that succeeds in its principal aim of informing the reader
about the nitty-gritty of urban governance and delineating
strategies for achieving progressive policies....For planning
students, it will serve as an excellent introduction to how the
technical and political interact in producing planning aims and
implementation, as well as to how the relationships between
different levels of government affect the potential of local
planning." Susan S. Fainstein for Planning Theory Journal
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