04479nam 2200733 a 450 991078851220332120200520144314.01-283-89692-30-8122-0596-010.9783/9780812205961(CKB)3240000000068529(EBL)3441917(SSID)ssj0000607285(PQKBManifestationID)11415956(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607285(PQKBWorkID)10584560(PQKB)11466212(OCoLC)794702139(MdBmJHUP)muse13848(DE-B1597)449430(OCoLC)1013941935(OCoLC)979724108(DE-B1597)9780812205961(Au-PeEL)EBL3441917(CaPaEBR)ebr10642669(CaONFJC)MIL420942(OCoLC)932312718(MiAaPQ)EBC3441917(EXLCZ)99324000000006852920090225d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImagining Philadelphia[electronic resource] Edmund Bacon and the future of the city /edited by Scott Gabriel KnowlesPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20091 online resource (184 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8122-2078-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.When 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.City planningPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistory20th centuryCity plannersPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaBiographyCity planningUnited StatesCase studiesPhiladelphia (Pa.)ForecastingArchitecture.Public Policy.Religious Studies.Urban Studies.City planningHistoryCity plannersCity planning307.1/21609748110904Knowles Scott Gabriel, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1490610Knowles Scott Gabriel1490610MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788512203321Imagining Philadelphia3844879UNINA