Format:
1 online resource (185 pages)
ISBN:
9780812205961
Content:
In his 1959 essay "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," Edmund Bacon described a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Bicentennial celebration and Philadelphia World's Fair. Imagining Philadelphia assesses Bacon's vision, discussing what has been accomplished and what might have been.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Revisiting Edmund Bacon's Vision for the City -- 1. Philadelphia in the Year 2009 -- 2. Salesman of Ideas: The Life Experiences That Shaped Edmund Bacon -- 3. A Utopian, a Utopianist, or Whatever the Heck It Is: Edmund Bacon and the Complexity of the City -- 4. Staying Too Long at the Fair: Philadelphia Planning and the Debacle of 1976 -- 5. Philadelphia in the Year 2059 -- Afterword -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812220780
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780812220780
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3441917
