Imagining Philadelphia Edmund Bacon and the future of the city / [electronic resource] : edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009. - 178 p. : ill., maps.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780812205961 (electronic bk.)




Bacon, Edmund N.
Bacon, Edmund N.--Political and social views.


Philadelphia City Planning Commission--Biography.


City planning--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--20th century.
City planners--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.
City planning--United States--Case studies.


Philadelphia (Pa.)--Forecasting.


Electronic books.

HT168.P43 / E56 2009

307.1/21609748110904