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The city we make together : city council meeting's primer for participation /
"In the middle of unprecedented, ongoing national political polarization, local governments carry on their work of deliberating, administrating, and running the official structures of cities. City council meetings are often where seemingly mundane issues take on epic proportions, and where demo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Humanities and public life.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: Introducing Mr. Pete Colt
- How to use this book
- How we got here : influences and travels
- What is a city council meeting?
- The show
- Part I. Orientation. The orientation video
- The room and us in it : making spaces play
- Meet the staff
- A new way to act
- The arrival of Jim Findlay
- Disclaimers : we don't have to agree to get something done
- Part II. Meeting. How the meeting works : an overview
- Act 1, Bismarck : Connie's retirement speech
- Act 2, San Antonio : props, paperwork, testimony
- Act 3, Houston : raising the stakes
- Act 4, open testimony : Tempe, Oakland, and Portland, with a detour to audience participation
- Pete Colt
- Part III. Intermission. Organizing at home and on the road
- Paying for time
- Participant-observer interviews
- Questions for schematic theatre
- Part IV. Local endings, Narrators and translators
- Houston : Eldorado ballroom
- Tempe : smilez
- New York City : the ignorant schoolmaster
- San Francisco : Dwayne's last show
- Keene, New Hampshire : the qualification.