Rhetoric Review Jan 2021

Reimagining Campus Community: A Spatio-Rhetorical Analysis of Conventional and Unconventional Planning Discourse

Jens Lloyd Drew University

Abstract

While urban and suburban planning have received sustained scrutiny from rhetoric scholars in recent years, campus planning remains relatively unexplored. Enacting a framework for analyzing the conventional and unconventional planning discourse swirling around campuses, this article focuses on a specific case: the (in)effective provision of student housing at the University of California Irvine. The analysis juxtaposes formal planning documents tied to the post-WWII origins of UCI with historical and contemporary student-generated discourse to evaluate and exhibit the means by which inhabitants, as rhetoricians-in-residence, can participate in shaping the campus community.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
Published
2021-01-02
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2020.1841528
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rhetorical criticism discourse analysis
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