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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKnowles, Scott Gabriel
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245 1 0 _aImagining Philadelphia :
_bEdmund Bacon and the Future of the City /
_cScott Gabriel Knowles; ed. by Scott Gabriel Knowles.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource (184 p.) :
_b26 illus.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: Revisiting Edmund Bacon's Vision for the City --
_tChapter One. Philadelphia in the Year 2009 --
_tChapter Two. Salesman of Ideas: The Life Experiences That Shaped Edmund Bacon --
_tChapter Three. A Utopian, a Utopianist, or Whatever the Heck It Is: Edmund Bacon and the Complexity of the City --
_tChapter Four. Staying Too Long at the Fair: Philadelphia Planning and the Debacle of 1976 --
_tChapter Five. Philadelphia in the Year 2059 --
_tAfterword --
_tNotes --
_tContributors --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
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520 _aWhen 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 Magazine, originally entitled "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," in which he imagined a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Philadelphia World's Fair and Bicentennial celebration, an event that would be a catalyst for a golden age of urban renewal.What Bacon did not predict was the long, bitter period of economic decline, population dispersal, and racial confrontation that Philadelphia was about to enter. As such, his essay comes to us as a time capsule, a message from one of the city's most influential and controversial shapers that prompts discussions of what was, what might have been, and what could yet be in the city's future.Imagining Philadelphia brings together Bacon's original essay, reprinted here for the first time in fifty years, and a set of original essays on the past, present, and future of urban planning in Philadelphia. In addition to examining Bacon and his motivations for writing the piece, the essays assess the wider context of Philadelphia's planning, architecture, and real estate communities at the time, how city officials were reacting to economic decline, what national precedents shaped Bacon's faith in grand forms of urban renewal, and whether or not it is desirable or even possible to adopt similarly ambitious visions for contemporary urban planning and economic development. The volume closes with a vision of what Philadelphia might look like fifty years from now.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aCity planners
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia
_vBiography.
650 0 _aCity planning
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia
_xHistory
_x20th century.
650 0 _aCity planning
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCity planning
_zUnited States
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aCity planning
_zUnited States
_xCase studies.
650 4 _aArchitecture.
650 7 _aARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.
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653 _aArchitecture.
653 _aPublic Policy.
653 _aReligious Studies.
653 _aUrban Studies.
700 1 _aBacon, Edmund N.
_eautore
700 1 _aBirch, Eugenie L.
_eautore
700 1 _aHeller, Gregory L.
_eautore
700 1 _aKnowles, Scott Gabriel
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aMcKee, Guian
_eautore
700 1 _aSteinberg, Harris M.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205961
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