Scott Gabriel Knowles

Imagining Philadelphia

Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City
Herausgeber: Knowles, Scott Gabriel

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780812220780
• ISBN-10: 0812220781
• Artikelnr.: 26817051

Autorenporträt

Edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles

Inhaltsangabe

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