JOURNAL ARTICLE

Jane Jacobs' Smart-Home Enthymemes: Ambiguous Urban Appeals in Google's Toronto Smart City.

  • Published In: Western Journal of Communication, 2023, v. 87, n. 5. P. 706 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Chandler, Curry 3 of 3

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Western Journal of Communication. 2023/10, Vol. 87, Issue 5, p706
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Religion and Philosophy
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:1057-0314
  • DOI:10.1080/10570314.2022.2146460
  • Accession Number:172402077
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