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Imagining Philadelphia : Edmund Bacon and the future of the city edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HT 168 .P43 E56 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- City planning.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Forecasting.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Bacon, Edmund N.
- Bacon, Edmund N--Political and social views.
- City planners--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.
- City planners.
- Philadelphia City Planning Commission--Biography.
- Philadelphia City Planning Commission.
- City planning--United States--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 178 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
- Contents:
- Philadelphia in the year 2009 / Edmund N. Bacon
- Salesman of ideas : the life experiences that shaped Edmund Bacon / Gregory L. Heller
- A utopian, a utopianist, or whatever the heck it is : Edmund Bacon and the complexity of the city / Guian McKee
- Staying too long at the fair : Philadelphia planning and the debacle of 1976 / Scott Gabriel Knowles
- Philadelphia in the year 2059 / Harris M. Steinberg
- Afterword / Eugenie Birch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812220780 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0812220781
- OCLC:
- 315237743
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