Imagining Philadelphia - Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles Klappentext Scott Gabriel Knowles is Associate Professor of History and Politics at Drexel College and Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Pennoni Honors College. He is also author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America! also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Scott G. (EDT) Knowles, Scott Gabriel Knowles
• Assisted by: Scott Gabriel Knowles (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2009
• EAN: 9780812220780
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2078-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education