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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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Subjects--Personal Names:
Bacon, Edmund N.
Bacon, Edmund N.--Political and social views.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Philadelphia City Planning Commission--Biography.

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

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Forecasting.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HT168.P43 / E56 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 307.1/21609748110904