Jim Throgmorton, PhD

Professor Emeritus, School of Planning & Public Affairs

Thursday, March 13, 2025
4:00 pm
Kollros Auditorium
101 Biology Building East

Video

After retiring from the U of Iowa in 2010, I served as a member of Iowa City’s city council from 2012 through 2019 and as mayor during the last four of those years. I focused much of the next two years on writing a book about what I had witnessed, done, and learned. The result, Co-crafting the Just City, offers a fine-grained story about how the real flesh-and-blood residents and elected leaders of a city, using democratic processes of governance, tried to co-craft their city’s future while being immersed in a complex, emotionally charged, and often politically contentious flow of action. After summarizing the book, I will report how major events and recent scholarly work have affected my thinking about how the project of co-crafting a more just city can be continued in light of challenging new conditions.

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