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<p>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 <i>Greater Philadelphia Magazine</i>, 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 wou

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Author

Philadelphia City Planning Commission.;Bacon, Edmund N.;Philadelphia City Planning Commission;Knowles, Scott Gabriel;Bacon, Edmund N

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812220780

Category

biography

Subjects

Memoir, Political Science, Urban & Land Use Planning

Updated

2026-03-25