Imagining Philadelphia
Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City
Scott Gabriel Knowles, Editor
2009 | 184 pages | Paper $22.50
Public Policy | Architecture
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Revisiting Edmund Bacon's Vision for the City
1 Philadelphia in the Year 2009
—Edmund N. Bacon
2 Salesman of Ideas: The Life Experiences That Shaped Edmund Bacon
—Gregory L. Heller
3 A Utopian, a Utopianist, or Whatever the Heck It Is: Edmund Bacon and the Complexity of the City
—Guian McKee
4 Staying Too Long at the Fair: Philadelphia Planning and the Debacle of 1976
—Scott Gabriel Knowles
5 Philadelphia in the Year 2059
—Harris M. Steinberg
Afterword
—Eugenie L. Birch
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments