LEADER 04479nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910788512203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89692-3 010 $a0-8122-0596-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205961 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068529 035 $a(EBL)3441917 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11415956 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607285 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10584560 035 $a(PQKB)11466212 035 $a(OCoLC)794702139 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13848 035 $a(DE-B1597)449430 035 $a(OCoLC)1013941935 035 $a(OCoLC)979724108 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205961 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441917 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642669 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420942 035 $a(OCoLC)932312718 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441917 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068529 100 $a20090225d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aImagining Philadelphia$b[electronic resource] $eEdmund Bacon and the future of the city /$fedited by Scott Gabriel Knowles 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (184 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-2078-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPhiladelphia 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. 330 $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. 606 $aCity planning$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCity planners$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vBiography 606 $aCity planning$zUnited States$vCase studies 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xForecasting 610 $aArchitecture. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aReligious Studies. 610 $aUrban Studies. 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory 615 0$aCity planners 615 0$aCity planning 676 $a307.1/21609748110904 700 $aKnowles$b Scott Gabriel, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01490610 701 $aKnowles$b Scott Gabriel$01490610 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788512203321 996 $aImagining Philadelphia$93844879 997 $aUNINA