Imagining Philadelphia : : Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City / / Scott Gabriel Knowles; ed. by Scott Gabriel Knowles.
When Philadelphia's iconoclastic city planner Edmund N. Bacon looked into his crystal ball in 1959, he saw a remarkable vision: "Philadelphia as an unmatched expression of the vitality of American technology and culture." In that year Bacon penned an essay for Greater Philadelphia Mag...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 26 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Revisiting Edmund Bacon's Vision for the City
- Chapter One. Philadelphia in the Year 2009
- Chapter Two. Salesman of Ideas: The Life Experiences That Shaped Edmund Bacon
- Chapter Three. A Utopian, a Utopianist, or Whatever the Heck It Is: Edmund Bacon and the Complexity of the City
- Chapter Four. Staying Too Long at the Fair: Philadelphia Planning and the Debacle of 1976
- Chapter Five. Philadelphia in the Year 2059
- Afterword
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgments