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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

Author

Scott Gabriel Knowles

Publisher

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812220780

Subjects

Architecture, Sociology, History