Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction: Revisiting Edmund Bacon's Vision for the City1 Philadelphia in the Year 2009—Edmund N. Bacon2 Salesman of Ideas: The Life Experiences That Shaped Edmund Bacon—Gregory L. Heller3 A Utopian, a Utopianist, or Whatever the Heck It Is: Edmund Bacon and the Complexity of the City—Guian McKee4 Staying Too Long at the Fair: Philadelphia Planning and the Debacle of 1976—Scott Gabriel Knowles5 Philadelphia in the Year 2059—Harris M. SteinbergAfterword—Eugenie L. BirchNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments