David Fleming is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

"City of Rhetoric is a well-researched, highly readable, and ambitious book." — JAC"Wide ranging in its conception, relevant in the problems it addresses, well-grounded in several intellectual traditions, and engaging in its detailed ethnographic analysis, City of Rhetoric probes the relationship between the built space and rhetorical possibility. This remarkable project explores civic rhetoric in situ. In so doing, David Fleming sheds new light on the 'place' of the public in our daily civic and rhetorical lives." — Rolf Norgaard, University of Colorado at Boulder

• List of IllustrationsPreface1. Introduction: Death CornerPart One The Geography of Politics 2. The Placelessness of Political Theory3. A New Civic Map for Our TimePart Two Designing the Twenty-fi rst Century Public Sphere 4. Ghetto: Chicago, 19955. Suburbia: Schaumburg, Illinois6. The New Urbanism: North Town Village7. Home: 1230 North Burling StreetPart Three Lessons for Theory and Practice 8. Toward a New Sociospatial Dialectic9. Cities of Rhetoric10. AfterwordAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

David Fleming is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

"City of Rhetoric is a well-researched, highly readable, and ambitious book." — JAC"Wide ranging in its conception, relevant in the problems it addresses, well-grounded in several intellectual traditions, and engaging in its detailed ethnographic analysis, City of Rhetoric probes the relationship between the built space and rhetorical possibility. This remarkable project explores civic rhetoric in situ. In so doing, David Fleming sheds new light on the 'place' of the public in our daily civic and rhetorical lives." — Rolf Norgaard, University of Colorado at Boulder

• List of IllustrationsPreface1. Introduction: Death CornerPart One The Geography of Politics 2. The Placelessness of Political Theory3. A New Civic Map for Our TimePart Two Designing the Twenty-fi rst Century Public Sphere 4. Ghetto: Chicago, 19955. Suburbia: Schaumburg, Illinois6. The New Urbanism: North Town Village7. Home: 1230 North Burling StreetPart Three Lessons for Theory and Practice 8. Toward a New Sociospatial Dialectic9. Cities of Rhetoric10. AfterwordAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

David Fleming is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

"City of Rhetoric is a well-researched, highly readable, and ambitious book." — JAC"Wide ranging in its conception, relevant in the problems it addresses, well-grounded in several intellectual traditions, and engaging in its detailed ethnographic analysis, City of Rhetoric probes the relationship between the built space and rhetorical possibility. This remarkable project explores civic rhetoric in situ. In so doing, David Fleming sheds new light on the 'place' of the public in our daily civic and rhetorical lives." — Rolf Norgaard, University of Colorado at Boulder

• List of IllustrationsPreface1. Introduction: Death CornerPart One The Geography of Politics 2. The Placelessness of Political Theory3. A New Civic Map for Our TimePart Two Designing the Twenty-fi rst Century Public Sphere 4. Ghetto: Chicago, 19955. Suburbia: Schaumburg, Illinois6. The New Urbanism: North Town Village7. Home: 1230 North Burling StreetPart Three Lessons for Theory and Practice 8. Toward a New Sociospatial Dialectic9. Cities of Rhetoric10. AfterwordAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex