Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the city of the future

edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles

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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.
Contributors:: Knowles, Scott Gabriel
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Subjects:: City planning — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History — 20th century
Philadelphia (Pa.) — Forecasting
Bacon, Edmund N.
Bacon, Edmund N. — Political and social views
City planners — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — Biography
Philadelphia City Planning Commission — Biography
City planning — United States — Case studies
Philadelphia City Planning Commission
1900-1999
Political and social views
City planners
Forecasting
City planning
United States
Pennsylvania — Philadelphia
Genres:: Biographies
Case studies
History
General Notes:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description:: 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Call Numbers:: HT168.P43 E56 2009
ISBNs:: 9780812220780 (alk. paper)
0812220781 (alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 2009008430
OCLC Numbers:: 315237743